Aethiopica 26 (2023)

Aethiopica is an internationally refereed academic journal, edited at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies and at the Department of African and Ethiopian Studies of the Asien-Afrika-Institut at the University of Hamburg. It is published annually in a printed version. The journal focuses on philology, linguistics, archaeology, history, cultural anthropology, religion, philosophy, literature, and manuscript studies, with a regional emphasis on Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, and related areas. The journal welcomes contributions on relevant academic topics as well as on recent research in the respective fields. Each issue of Aethiopica contains reviews of books which form a substantial section of the journal. Aethiopica is published mainly in English. Articles in French, German and Italian are also accepted for publication. An English abstract for all articles in any language is provided. From the contents (altogether 25 contributions): Magdalena Krzyzanowska & Karin Ghion-Hamadu & Maria Bulakh, Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVI: 2022 Gidey Gebreegziabher, A Hitherto Unattested Ethio-Sabaean King in a Woman’s Altar Dedication from S?? r?an (T?gray/Ethiopia) —Discovery and Context Benjamin Garstad, The Location of the Candace Episode in the Alexander Romance and the Chronicle of John Malalas Adam Simmons & Sébastien Garnier, The Letters of the Ethiopian Ambassador Mateus and his Embassy to Lisbon: When Prester John Actually Ruled Ethiopia, 1509–1520 Alessandro Gori, Exploring the Ethnicity and Social Condition of Muslim Calligraphers: A Short Note on Two Scribes from the Horn of Africa in the Mamluk Period Aaron Michael Butts & Ted Erho, The Ethiopic Homily on Holy Easter attributed to John Theologos and its Arabic Vorlage (CPG 4163.2)