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G. W. Bowersock, The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, 208 pages
Between 523 and 525 CE, a Christian merchant traveled to Adulis, a port city on the Red Sea coast of Africa, and recorded the Greek texts inscribed on a white marble throne and a black basalt stele for the king (negus) of Ethiopian Aksum. While he did so, the king was planning an expedition to south Arabia to confront a Jewish monarch who was persecuting Christians. The “Adulis Throne” and its accompanying stele, now lost, are the focus of G. W. Bowersock’s The Throne of Adulis. In this concise, lucid book, Bowersock situates these objects within a short history of the late antique Red Sea and its imperial and religious antagonisms (6). Certain material intersects with that of Bowersock’s collected lectures in Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity (2012), but the perspective that The Throne of Adulis offers is new. Moreover, it synthesizes and pinpoints in a readable fashion the significance of recent scholarly advances in Aksumite and south Arabian epigraphy, archaeology, and history, including those of Christian Julien Robin and his fellow travelers. It thereby extends such knowledge to a wide potential readership.
2Before its sixth‑century recording, the Adulis Throne had an enigmatic past, and opinions have varied regarding its commission (Preface, ix‑xi). In this regard, Bowersock observes the following (Chapter 1: 7‑21). First, the Adulis Throne is consistent with roughly several dozen thrones that Aksumite kings raised subsequently at Aksum or other sites (16). Second, an illustrated map appearing in the three manuscripts of the text written by the Christian merchant who recorded its inscription, commonly called the Christian Topography (12‑13 and 16‑17; figure 1), contains an illustration of it. Third, the Christian merchant erroneously believed that the throne and its accompanying stele contained a single Greek text. In fact, the stele commemorated the feats of an early Ptolemaic monarch; the throne was raised by an anonymous Ethiopian king who emulated him. Fourth, the merchant transcribed the Greek for the Aksumite negus Kālēb, who sought precedent for an invasion of south Arabia. In this sense, the throne emblematized a strain of Ethiopian imperialism that linked Aksum and south Arabia. ...
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