George Hatke
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814760666
- eISBN:
- 9780814762783
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814760666.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter examines Aksum's expansion towards the west and north, based on the testimony of the third-century Aksumite inscription Monumentum Adulitanum II (RIE 277). Although RIE 277 deals ...
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This chapter examines Aksum's expansion towards the west and north, based on the testimony of the third-century Aksumite inscription Monumentum Adulitanum II (RIE 277). Although RIE 277 deals primarily with Aksumite military operations in northeast Africa, its references to similar operations in western Arabia provide evidence for a relative date of the inscription and substantiate the case for its authenticity as preserved by the merchant Cosmas Indicopleustes. This chapter argues that, in the course of the military campaigns described in RIE 277, the Aksumite army pushed as far north as the southeastern frontier of Roman Egypt and as far west as the modern Sudanese–Ethiopian borderlands, leaving Kush in peace.Less
This chapter examines Aksum's expansion towards the west and north, based on the testimony of the third-century Aksumite inscription Monumentum Adulitanum II (RIE 277). Although RIE 277 deals primarily with Aksumite military operations in northeast Africa, its references to similar operations in western Arabia provide evidence for a relative date of the inscription and substantiate the case for its authenticity as preserved by the merchant Cosmas Indicopleustes. This chapter argues that, in the course of the military campaigns described in RIE 277, the Aksumite army pushed as far north as the southeastern frontier of Roman Egypt and as far west as the modern Sudanese–Ethiopian borderlands, leaving Kush in peace.
