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The sacred city of the Ethiopians : being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893

Title
The sacred city of the Ethiopians : being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893 / by J. Theodore Bent ; with a chapter by Prof. H.D. Müller on the inscriptions from Yeha and Aksum, and an appendix on the morphological character of the Abyssinians, by J.G. Garson ...
Author
Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897.
Publication
London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893.

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Additional Authors
  • Müller, David Heinrich, 1846-1912.
  • Garson, J. G. (John George)
  • Longmans, Green, and Co., publisher.
Description
xv, 309 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, folded map, folded facsimiles; 23 cm
Subject
  • Inscriptions, Sabaean
  • Inscriptions, Greek > Ethiopia
  • Ethiopians
  • National characteristics, Ethiopian
  • Inscriptions sabéennes
  • Inscriptions grecques > Éthiopie
  • Éthiopiens
  • National characteristics, Ethiopian
  • Ethiopians
  • Inscriptions, Greek
  • Inscriptions, Sabaean
  • Travel
  • Ethiopia > Description and travel
  • Āksum (Ethiopia)
  • Yeha Site (Ethiopia)
  • Éthiopie > Descriptions et voyages
  • Ethiopia
  • Ethiopia > Āksum
  • Ethiopia > Yeha Site
Note
  • "On the inscriptions from Yeha and Aksum, by Dr. David Heinrich Müller" ... (with 4 plates, including Inscription at Aksum, Boeckh, Corpus inscr. III, 515) p. 231-285. Fuller particulars and photographic facsimiles of the impressions published in Denkschriften der K. Akad. der wiss. in Wien, Phil. hist. kl., bd. 43, no. 3 (1894)
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Arrival in Ethiopia -- Stay at Asmara -- Expedition to the Monastery of Bizen -- Journey northwards -- On the road to Adoua -- The Portuguese episode -- Stay at Adoua -- Expedition to Yeha and its archaeological results -- The sacred city of the Ethiopians -- On the antiquities of Aksum -- On the return journey -- The ruined cities near the coast -- Inscriptions from Yeha and Aksum / by Dr. David Heinrich Müller -- Appendix: On the morphological characters of the Abyssinians / by J.G. Garson.
LCCN
04016728
OCLC
  • ocm03142665
  • 3142665
  • SCSB-704941
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library