 {"id":606,"date":"2012-01-01T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palethnologie.org\/?p=606"},"modified":"2015-12-08T17:08:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T16:08:17","slug":"2012-03-poissonnier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/2012-03-poissonnier-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2012-03\u2013POISSONNIER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h1>The Giant Stelae of Aksum<br \/>\nin the Light of the 1999 Excavations<\/h1>\n<h3>Bertrand POISSONNIER<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/wp-content\/files\/2012\/en-GB\/Palethnology-2012-GB-03-Poissonnier.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-92\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/files\/2014\/04\/ico-pdf-021.gif\" alt=\"ico-pdf-02\" width=\"44\" height=\"51\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Download<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>Excavations were carried out in 1999 on the location of Stela 2 at the ancient site of Aksum in northern Ethiopia. These excavations have permitted the documentation of the foundation of this stela, which was transported  to Rome in 1937. Preparations were also made for the stela\u2019s return to the site in 2005 and its re-erection in 2008  at the exact location where it stood in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> or 4<sup>th<\/sup> century AD. The excavations also made it possible to re-examine our perception of the three giant stelae on the site, from their conception and erection to their destruction.<\/p>\n<h4>To cite this article<\/h4>\n<address><span style=\"color: #bd7e1b\">Poissonnier B.,\u00a02012 <\/span>\u2013\u00a0The Giant Stelae of Aksum in the Light of the 1999 Excavations, in F.-X. Fauvelle-Aymar, <em>Palethnology of Africa<\/em>, <em>P@lethnology<\/em>, 4, 49-86.<\/address>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Giant Stelae of Aksum in the Light of the 1999 Excavations Bertrand POISSONNIER \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Download Abstract Excavations were carried out in 1999 on the location of Stela 2 at the ancient site of Aksum in northern Ethiopia. These excavations have permitted the documentation of the foundation of this stela, which was transported to Rome in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/2012-03-poissonnier-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2012-03\u2013POISSONNIER<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40420],"tags":[40165,13684,40009,40169,40168,45633],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-4-articles","tag-aksum","tag-archeologie","tag-ethiopie","tag-megalithisme","tag-monolithe","tag-stele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}