G. W. Bowersock, The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, 208 pages
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Between 523 and 525 CE, a Christian merchant traveled to Adulis, a port city on the Red Sea coast of Africa, and recorded the Greek texts inscribed on a white marble throne and a black basalt stele for the king (negus) of Ethiopian Aksum. While he did so, the king was planning an expedition to south Arabia to confront a Jewish monarch who was persecuting Christians. The “Adulis Throne” and its accompanying stele, now lost, are the focus of G. W. Bowersock’s The Throne of Adulis. In this conc...
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Between 523 and 525 CE, a Christian merchant traveled to Adulis, a port city on the Red Sea coast of Africa, and recorded the Greek texts inscribed on a white marble throne and a black basalt stele for the king (negus) of Ethiopian Aksum. While he did so, the king was planning an expedition to south Arabia to confront a Jewish monarch who was persecuting Christians. The “Adulis Throne” and its accompanying stele, now lost, are the focus of G. W. Bowersock’s The Throne of Adulis. In this conc...
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