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Aksumite

Scope note

Use both for the Ethiopian period and to describe its material cultural remains having traits that developed around 700 BCE, but more specifically attributed to the era between the first century BCE and around 1000 CE.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300015703

Term used for

Axumite

Created

13yrs ago

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