| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 181 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Emblems of antiquity
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Emblems of antiquity.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168) and index. |
| Contents |
The throne -- A Christian traveller in the Red Sea -- Ptolemy's elephants -- The Kingdom of Axum -- Christianity comes to Axum -- Judaism comes to Ḥimyar -- The Ethiopian invasion of 525 -- Entry of the great powers -- Reckoning. |
| Summary |
Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in Ethiopia, and the Sasanian Empire in Persia, which supported the Jews in what became a proxy war against its longtime foe Byzantium. Our knowledge of these events derives largely from an inscribed marble throne at the Ethiopian port of Adulis, meticulously described by a sixth-century Christian mercha. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Chronological Term |
6th century |
| Subject |
History. |
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Ḥimyar (Yemen) -- History -- 6th century.
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Jews -- Yemen (Republic) -- Ḥimyar -- History -- 6th century.
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Jews. |
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Yemen (Republic) -- Ḥimyar. |
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Arabian Peninsula -- History -- To 622.
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Arabian Peninsula. |
| Chronological Term |
To 622 |
| Subject |
Aksum (Kingdom) -- History -- 6th century.
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Red Sea Region -- History -- 6th century.
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Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity -- History -- 6th century.
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Judaism. |
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Relations. |
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Christianity. |
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Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- History -- 6th century.
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Christianity and other religions. |
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Red Sea Region. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bowersock, G.W. (Glen Warren), 1936- Throne of Adulis. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199739325 (DLC) 2012023593 (OCoLC)796354992 |
| ISBN |
9780199333677 (electronic book) |
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019933367X (electronic book) |
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9780199739325 |
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0199739323 |
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