The Geographical Journal
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ISBN13: 9780217584722
Paperback|9780217584722
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ANCIENT TRADE ROUTE ACROSS ETHIOPIA. By J. THEODORE BENT. Adulis, the modern Zula, was the port of one of the great trade routes which led into the interior and eventually came into the Nile valley at Meroe. It is about 20 miles south of Massawa on the Red Sea, about 2 miles from the shore, and is represented now by a number of mounds covering buildings which have been hidden by the accumulation of soil washed down by the adjacent river, which is now entirely silted up. The few traces of architecture still to be seen point to a late period, probably not more than a century before Christ. As for the great Adulitan inscription, it has long since disappeared, and probably lies buried in one of the mounds. Luckily for us, it was copied and its authenticity is undoubted, and it forms one of the most valuable aids we have in deciphering the ancient geography of Abyssinia. Ancient geographers are scanty in their information about this part of the world. Strabo knew nothing of Adulis. Pliny knew it as the emporium for ivory, skins and products of the interior, and the port of Ethiopia Troglodytica. The author of the ' Periplus' was better informed, and knew also that Adulis was the port of Axum, the capital of this portion of Ethiopia. Both Ptolemy and the ' Periplus' mention the town of Koloe as tho first place inland after Adulis; the ' Periplus' tells us that it is three days from Adulis and five from Axsum. Lejean imagined that it therefore must be near Halai, the first village on the high plateau on the road to Axum. Salt considered Dixan to be the spot, distant about three hours from Halai. When we visited these villages I searched everywhere for ruins, but found none. However, at Halai we heard of extensive ruins on a high and isolated plateau called Kohaito, so we ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217584722 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217584721 |
| Weight | 1.91 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.33 In |
| List Price | $35.26 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 598 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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