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Stela of Aksum Memorial
[between 1950-1974]
Aksum (Kingdom); Africa; Aksum (Ethiopia); Ethiopia
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Stela of Aksum, a multi-storied memorial made from a single piece of granite, built between 2nd and 4th centuries A.D. For a more detailed description of the Stelae of Aksum, see Churches in Rock: Early Christian Art in Ethiopia by George Gerster (London: Phadon, 1970), pp. 25-26.
- Collection
- Dimitrios Kyriazis photographs
- Catalog date
- [between 1950-1974]
- Recorded places
- Aksum (Kingdom); Africa; Aksum (Ethiopia); Ethiopia
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Kyriazis, Dimitrios, 1933-2001
- Recorded subjects
- Cultural landscapes
- Format and extent
- 1 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1999-005, Item EEPA 1999-051934-2
Collection: Dimitrios Kyriazis photographs