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Résumé : Le présent article est une analyse des événements historiques dont on retrouve trace dans le Kebra Nagast et dans quelques sources qui furent utilisées par le(s) compilateur(s) de cet ouvrage. Remettant en cause sa validité comme témoignage historique, c'est aussi une réfutation des thèses qui fait remonter aux VIe - VIIe siècle la composition originale de l'ouvrage, de même que l'histoire de Salomon et de la reine de Saba.

The author carried out a study ofthe coinage of Aksum when a researrh student ofthe British Institute. Here he examines the history of the main.port of the kingdom.

In 1868, during the British military expedition to Magdala in Abyssinia (Ethiopia), an archaeological excavation was undertaken, under the auspices of R. Holmes, a representative of the British Museum, at the ancient port-city of Adulis a few kilometres from the Red Sea coast. The excavation, of which some details were reported in a War Office Publication of 1870, was one of the earliest undertaken in Africa south of the Sahara. As a result an ancient church was discovered and cleared. Among the finds were a number of items of ecclesiastical furniture, some apparently imported in a prefabricated state from the Roman eastern Mediterranean. Some of these pieces, now lodged in the British Museum, are here published for the first time.

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