The Sacred City of the Ethiopians: Being a Record of Travel and Research in Abyssinia in 1893Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 309 pages |
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... ROCK . 191 192 . 193 · . 195 ABYSSINIAN CHAIR . PEASANT'S CAP . . . 208 . 216 THE DAM AT KOLOE . 219 COLUMN AT KOLOE · 221 CAPITAL OF COLUMN , ADULIS 228 1 THE SACRED SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS CHAPTER I ILLUSTRATIONS XV.
... ROCK . 191 192 . 193 · . 195 ABYSSINIAN CHAIR . PEASANT'S CAP . . . 208 . 216 THE DAM AT KOLOE . 219 COLUMN AT KOLOE · 221 CAPITAL OF COLUMN , ADULIS 228 1 THE SACRED SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS CHAPTER I ILLUSTRATIONS XV.
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... Adulis . Shortly before his arrival at Aksum there appeared to Nonnosus and those with him a great wonder at the spot called Ave , which is between the city of Aksum and Adulis , a great quantity of elephants , about 5,000 collected ...
... Adulis . Shortly before his arrival at Aksum there appeared to Nonnosus and those with him a great wonder at the spot called Ave , which is between the city of Aksum and Adulis , a great quantity of elephants , about 5,000 collected ...
Page 144
... Adulis conquered the whole of Abyssinia . After mentioning certain towns conquered near Adulis , certain words occur which are supposed to be interpolated , after cross- ing the Nile , ' because it was impossible to account for them ...
... Adulis conquered the whole of Abyssinia . After mentioning certain towns conquered near Adulis , certain words occur which are supposed to be interpolated , after cross- ing the Nile , ' because it was impossible to account for them ...
Page 189
... Adulis . One obelisk , which had broken into fragments and fallen into the stream , enabled us to take a photograph of the top and to see the holes by which the metal plaque had been attached , and thereby satisfactorily establish that ...
... Adulis . One obelisk , which had broken into fragments and fallen into the stream , enabled us to take a photograph of the top and to see the holes by which the metal plaque had been attached , and thereby satisfactorily establish that ...
Page 192
... Adulis and Koloe , which we shall have occasion to describe later on ; they are square , and with a narrow edge cut off the four angles of the shaft . This again shows the influence of the coast towns on the archi- tecture of the ...
... Adulis and Koloe , which we shall have occasion to describe later on ; they are square , and with a narrow edge cut off the four angles of the shaft . This again shows the influence of the coast towns on the archi- tecture of the ...
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