Nouvelle stèle anthropomorphe à Amorigé dans le Soddo (Éthiopie)

The upper part of an anthropomorphic stelaehas been discovered at Amorigé in the Soddo region (Ethiopia). Its base layed up in position, at about two meters. The flat stone with a clear compartmented head was originally more than 3 m high. On the body we can see the symbolic triad with a vegetable f...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:41d5296589da4b7f82c2e79ed98924b22021-12-02T10:48:23ZNouvelle stèle anthropomorphe à Amorigé dans le Soddo (Éthiopie)2431-204510.4000/aaa.821https://doaj.org/article/41d5296589da4b7f82c2e79ed98924b22009-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/aaa/821https://doaj.org/toc/2431-2045The upper part of an anthropomorphic stelaehas been discovered at Amorigé in the Soddo region (Ethiopia). Its base layed up in position, at about two meters. The flat stone with a clear compartmented head was originally more than 3 m high. On the body we can see the symbolic triad with a vegetable form sign, two disks instead of breasts, two swords with their point down and two vertical zigzags. It belongs to the group of “historiatedstelae”, some of them with vegetal signs being masculine, others with falling breasts being feminine. Further south, in the region of Butajira, F. Azaïs and R. Chambard have cleared a large stone box in front of two stelae of this style. These magnificent stelae seem to have been the towering markers for the tombs of high rank persons, and are to be dated of the xii-xivth centuries AD.Roger JoussaumeOpenEditionarticlestelaeanthropomorpheArchaeologyCC1-960History of the artsNX440-632ENFRAfrique Archéologie Arts, Vol 5, Pp 93-98 (2009)
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topic stelae
anthropomorphe
Archaeology
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History of the arts
NX440-632
spellingShingle stelae
anthropomorphe
Archaeology
CC1-960
History of the arts
NX440-632
Roger Joussaume
Nouvelle stèle anthropomorphe à Amorigé dans le Soddo (Éthiopie)
description The upper part of an anthropomorphic stelaehas been discovered at Amorigé in the Soddo region (Ethiopia). Its base layed up in position, at about two meters. The flat stone with a clear compartmented head was originally more than 3 m high. On the body we can see the symbolic triad with a vegetable form sign, two disks instead of breasts, two swords with their point down and two vertical zigzags. It belongs to the group of “historiatedstelae”, some of them with vegetal signs being masculine, others with falling breasts being feminine. Further south, in the region of Butajira, F. Azaïs and R. Chambard have cleared a large stone box in front of two stelae of this style. These magnificent stelae seem to have been the towering markers for the tombs of high rank persons, and are to be dated of the xii-xivth centuries AD.
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title Nouvelle stèle anthropomorphe à Amorigé dans le Soddo (Éthiopie)
title_short Nouvelle stèle anthropomorphe à Amorigé dans le Soddo (Éthiopie)
title_full Nouvelle stèle anthropomorphe à Amorigé dans le Soddo (Éthiopie)
title_fullStr Nouvelle stèle anthropomorphe à Amorigé dans le Soddo (Éthiopie)
title_full_unstemmed Nouvelle stèle anthropomorphe à Amorigé dans le Soddo (Éthiopie)
title_sort nouvelle stèle anthropomorphe à amorigé dans le soddo (éthiopie)
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