{"id":530,"date":"2009-06-04T18:18:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T23:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2009-06-04T18:18:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T23:18:57","slug":"stela-4-axum-tigray-ethiopia-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/stela-4-axum-tigray-ethiopia-may-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Stela 4, Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia, May 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Stela 4, North Stelae Field, Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia, May 2009 by larkvi (on a research trip, checking rarely), on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/3595470227\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3600\/3595470227_8eb3b9ddea_o.jpg\" alt=\"Stela 4, North Stelae Field, Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia, May 2009\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Stela 4 Head, Maryam Tsion Church Compound, Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia, May 2009 by larkvi (on a research trip, checking rarely), on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/3595470221\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3627\/3595470221_335ffbda7b_o.jpg\" alt=\"Stela 4 Head, Maryam Tsion Church Compound, Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia, May 2009\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stela 4 has the best-preserved altar of any of the stelae, its altar depressions being well-preserved, as opposed to those of stela 3, which were used by local women as mortars. The head-piece, separated from the rest of the stela during its fall, now rests in the compound of the old St. Mary of Zion Church.<\/p>\n<p>It has been suggested that the round representation on the head is a traditional ethiopian bread, but I am somewhat skeptical as to the importance and symbolism of bread in such a case, given what we know of Sabean religious customs, and wonder if it couldn&#8217;t be the sun or a traditional shield instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stela 4 has the best-preserved altar of any of the stelae, its altar depressions being well-preserved, as opposed to those of stela 3, which were used by local women as mortars. The head-piece, separated from the rest of the stela during its fall, now rests in the compound of the old St. Mary of Zion &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/stela-4-axum-tigray-ethiopia-may-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stela 4, Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia, May 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,74,77,287,846,909],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-africa","tag-axum","tag-axumite-architecture","tag-ethiopia","tag-stela","tag-tigray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}