Monumentum Adulitanum

Reconstruction Of The Monumentum Adulitanum by Daniel Krencker a German architectural historian[1]

The Monumentum Adulitanum, so named by Leo Allatius, was an ancient inscription written in Greek, depicting the military campaigns of an anonymous king. The original text was inscribed on a throne in Adulis. Although the inscription has never been discovered by archaeologists, it is known about through the copying of the inscription by Cosmas Indicopleustes, a 6th-century Greek traveler-monk. The text narrates the king's military campaigns in the African continent and in the Arabian peninsula. It is thought to be between 200 and 270 AD.[2]

  1. ^ Krencker, Daniel (1913). Deutsche Aksum-Expedition (in German). G. Reimer. p. 66.
  2. ^ George Hatke, Aksum and Nubia: Warfare, Commerce, and Political Fictions in Ancient Northeast Africa (New York University Press, 2013), pp. 44. ISBN 0-7486-0106-6

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