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TM 103010 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/103010

also known as Ezana Stone; Ezana's Inscription

TM Gallery info The Ezana Stone (TM 103010) is a 4th century AD trilingual stele in Ethiopian, South Arabian and Greek, reporting the conversion of Ezana, an Ethiopian king, to christianity by Saint Frumentius, a freed slave. Ezana reigned over Aksum from 330 to 356, and conquered various regions including Meroe, as is also related in the text. The stele still stands in Aksum today.

Metadata

Date: 4th century AD: AD 300 - 399

Provenance: Axoume (Aksum) - Ethiopia (N/AThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - outside the Imperium RomanumThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [find place, place of writing & preservation]

Language/script: Ethiopian (Ge'ez dialect) / Greek

Greek with Ethiopian (Ge'ez)

Material: stone (granite, black) — stele

Reuse type: other text(s) on the same object: TM 102469, TM 102470

More info: PHISearchable Greek Inscriptions (Packard Humanities Institute) => 223424 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

I. Éthiopie 270 (Bernand, Étienne - 1991-2000) [default]

∙SEG 63 1716 [270] descr. (Chaniotis, Angelos / Corsten, Thomas / Papazarkadas, N. / Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia / Tybout, R. A. - 2013 [2017]) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙SEG 62 1780 [270] descr. (Chaniotis, Angelos / Corsten, Thomas / Papazarkadas, N. / Tybout, R. A. - 2012 [2016]) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙SEG 42 1638 (Pleket, Henry W. / e.a. - 1992 [1995]) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Munro-Hay, Aksum. An African civilisation of Late Antiquity p. 224-225 (Munro-Hay, Stuart - 1991)

∙Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) 18 (1981), p. 47-50 [1638] (Burstein, Stanley M. - 1981)

∙Journal des savants (1970), p. 260-274 [4] (Aufray, F. / Caquot, André / Nautin, Pierre - 1970) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙SB 5 8546 (Bilabel, Friedrich / Kiessling, Emil - 1938-1950)

∙SB 3 6949 (Bilabel, Friedrich - 1927)

∙Littmann, Sabaische, griechische und altabessinische Inschriften (Deutsche Aksum-Expedition 4) 4 (Littmann, Enno - 1913)

∙OGIS 1 200 (Dittenberger, Wilhelm - 1903) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Müller, Epigraphische Denkmäler (Denkschr. Wien. Akad. 43, 3) p. 16 (Müller, David Heinrich - 1894)

∙CIG 3 5128 (Franz, Johannes C. - 1853) Please subscribe to follow this link

Other bibliography: Bulletin épigraphique 1972 619 [Littmann 4]; Bernand, ZPE 45 (1982), p. 105-114

Collections

Ethiopia, Aksum, in situ

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    TM 103010

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