Aphilas (270-330)
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/29953
- Name (English)
- Aphilas
- Short name
- Aphilas
- Year of birth
- 270
- Year of death
- 330
- Short Description
- "Aphilas (early 4th century) was a King of the Kingdom of Aksum in East Africa modern day northern Ethiopia and Eritrea . He is known from the coins he minted, which are characterized by a number of experiments in imagery on the obverse, and being issued in fractions of weight that none of his successors copied.
G.W.B. Huntingford suggests that he was the ruler who erected the anonymous inscription at Adulis known as the Monumentum Adulitanum." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020) - Entity Encoding
- pik
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