Ethiopia’s artistic past is its stone monuments. Among the colossal stelae carved from single blocks of granite to mark the burial sites of pre-Christian potentates at Aksum is the largest monolith ever quarried and transported. At Aksum, texts in Greek, Sabaean, and Ge’ez (the classical antecedent to Amharic) inscribed on stone tablets attest to the fourth-century emperor Ezana’s embrace
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