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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... language of communication in our domestic department , we soon abandoned our efforts to call him by his more high - sounding name , and knew him as Marko . As to our muleteers , they formed a heterogeneous mass of idle , troublesome ...
... language of communication in our domestic department , we soon abandoned our efforts to call him by his more high - sounding name , and knew him as Marko . As to our muleteers , they formed a heterogeneous mass of idle , troublesome ...
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... language and religious rites , and had a fortress town at Yeha , a most ad- vantageous spot for commerce with the interior . The removal of this capital to Aksum will account for the absence of the name Ava in the works of later ...
... language and religious rites , and had a fortress town at Yeha , a most ad- vantageous spot for commerce with the interior . The removal of this capital to Aksum will account for the absence of the name Ava in the works of later ...
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... language of the Aksumitans down to the sixth century of our era . King Aizanes , early in the fourth cen- tury , set up a stone to commemorate a victory , one side of which is written in Sabæan characters , whilst the other is in late ...
... language of the Aksumitans down to the sixth century of our era . King Aizanes , early in the fourth cen- tury , set up a stone to commemorate a victory , one side of which is written in Sabæan characters , whilst the other is in late ...
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... language and manners , the report of an ancient emigration , and the narrow interval between the shores of the Red Sea . ' There is another curious reference to Ethiopia given us by Philostorgius . An embassy was sent by Constantine ...
... language and manners , the report of an ancient emigration , and the narrow interval between the shores of the Red Sea . ' There is another curious reference to Ethiopia given us by Philostorgius . An embassy was sent by Constantine ...
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... language , gradually approxi- mating itself to the early Ethiopian , to be distin- guished , and probably the inscribed tablets were put up near the thrones or statues to which they be- longed . This line of stones and statues leading ...
... language , gradually approxi- mating itself to the early Ethiopian , to be distin- guished , and probably the inscribed tablets were put up near the thrones or statues to which they be- longed . This line of stones and statues leading ...
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Abys Abyssinian Church Addi Adoua Adulis Aizanes Aksumites Alvarez Amhara amongst ancient ANDREW LANG Arabian Asmara Bizen Bogos boustrophedon Christianity colour cross Crown 8vo decoration Dejetch Edition Emperor escort Essays Ethiopian exceedingly fragments Fremona Galla Gondar Greek Habashat Haggard's H. R. Halai Hamite high plateau Himyaritic HISTORY Holy Illus Illustrations inclosure inhabitants inherent vowels Italian JOHN king of Aksum kingdom of Aksum Kohaito Koloe legend letters Lord M.A. Crown 8vo Maps Mareb Massowah monks monoliths mountains mules obelisk Plates Political Portuguese Prester John priests Ras Alula Ras Mangashah Red Sea Roman round ruins Rüppell Saba Sabæan sacred inclosure Semitic side silver sinian stone Story stream Susenyos temple Text Tigré tion town Translated trations trees tribe valley village vols wall whilst Yeha καὶ
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