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

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  1. 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 ...
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  1. London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893.
Author
  1. Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897.

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Additional authors
  1. Müller, David Heinrich, 1846-1912.
  2. Garson, J. G. (John George)
  3. Longmans, Green, and Co., publisher.
Description
  1. xv, 309 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, folded map, folded facsimiles; 23 cm
Subject
  1. Inscriptions, Sabaean
  2. Inscriptions, Greek > Ethiopia
  3. Ethiopians
  4. National characteristics, Ethiopian
  5. Inscriptions sabéennes
  6. Inscriptions grecques > Éthiopie
  7. Éthiopiens
  8. National characteristics, Ethiopian
  9. Ethiopians
  10. Inscriptions, Greek
  11. Inscriptions, Sabaean
  12. Travel
  13. Ethiopia > Description and travel
  14. Āksum (Ethiopia)
  15. Yeha Site (Ethiopia)
  16. Éthiopie > Descriptions et voyages
  17. Ethiopia
  18. Ethiopia > Āksum
  19. Ethiopia > Yeha Site
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. "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)
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