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Aksum: an African civilisation of late antiquity. By Stuart Munro-Hay. pp. x, 294 67 illus., 3 maps. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1991. £40.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

A. F. L. Beeston
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , July 1992 , pp. 247 - 251
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1992

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1 It is worth noting that, as pointed out by Müller, W.W. (“Abessinier und ihre Namen”, NESE III, 1978, p. 196),Google Scholar the first of these two names should probably read ‘ḤYQM as in Eryani's Arabic-script transcription, which is generally more reliable than his South Arabian script version.

2 The precise significance is obscure. The author mentions (p. 185) a view that the disc represents the sun, but it is as possible that it may represent a star.

3 The decorative “rosette” which often appears as a line-filler at the end of Sabaic inscriptions sometimes has a form which could easily have been interpreted as a (Christian) cross, if the text had not been explicitly pagan in content; see for example CIAS 1.65 and 89.