AETHIOPICA International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies

Edited in the Asien-Afrika-Institut Hiob Ludolf Zentrum für Äthiopistik der Universität Hamburg Abteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik

by Alessandro Bausi in cooperation with Bairu Taﬂ a, Ulrich Braukämper, Ludwig Gerhardt, Hilke Meyer-Bahlburg and Siegbert Uhlig

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Harrassowitz Verlag · Wiesbaden Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies welcomes con- tri butions on all aspects of linguistics, philology, history, archaeology, palaeography, reli- gion(s), traditional art and culture as well as ethnology (anthropology) related to the Horn of Africa. Vignette: Gold coin of King Aphilas, early 3rd century A.D., as drawn by A. Luegmeyer after the coin in Rennau collection. Weight 2.48 grams, diameter 17 mm. Articles, reviews, conference reports, notes and all correspondence concerning editorial matters should be sent to: Aethiopica, Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Alster- terrasse 1, 20354 Hamburg, Germany; phone: +49 (0)40 42838-7730; Fax: +49 (0)40 42838- 3330; E-Mail: [email protected]. Contributors are requested to submit their contributions in digital and paper form. Additional information can be found at http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/AETHIOPICA. Only unpublished contributions are accepted for publication. The decision will be made by the editorial management in consultation with the board members and peer-reviewers. All views represented in the papers are those of the authors. Authors will receive the print-ready pdf-ﬁ le of their contribution. Subscription orders can be placed with booksellers and agencies or directly with Harrassowitz Verlag, 65174 Wiesbaden, Germany; Fax: +49 611 530999; E-Mail: [email protected].

Editorial Team Angela Müller Thomas Rave

Editorial Board David Appleyard, London Richard Pankhurst, Addis Ababa/London Rodolfo Fattovich, Napoli Alain Rouaud, Paris Marilyn E. Heldman, Silver Spring Shiferaw Bekele, Addis Ababa Olga Kapeliuk, Jerusalem Rainer Voigt, Berlin

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Table of Contents

Editorial ...... 5 Bibliographical abbreviations used in this volume ...... 6

Articles PAOLO MARRASSINI, Frustula nagranitica ...... 7 DENIS NOSNITSIN, The Antiquities of Däbrä Zäyt Qǝddǝst Maryam (East Tǝgray, Ethiopia) ...... 33 GETATCHEW HAILE, Praises of the Cross, Wǝddase Mäsqäl, by Abba Giyorgis of Gasǝa: ውዳሴ፡ መስቀል፡ ...... 47 MARCO BONECHI, Four Sistine Ethiopians? The 1481 Ethiopian Embassy and the Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican ...... 121 GIANFRANCO FIACCADORI, A Marginal Note to “Four Sistine Ethiopians?” ...... 136 MERSHA ALEHEGNE, Towards a Glossary of Ethiopian Manuscript Culture and Practice ...... 145 ULRICH BRAUKÄMPER, Indigenous Views on the Italian Occupation in Southern Ethiopia: A Post-Colonial Approach ...... 163 GIOVANNA TRENTO, Madamato and Colonial Concubinage in Ethiopia: A Comparative Perspective ...... 184 RAINER VOIGT, Bibliographie zur äthiosemitischen und kuschitischen Sprachwissenschaft XIV: 2009 ...... 206

Miscellaneous ROBERT BEYLOT, Trois notes: sur le bois de la Croix, sur Grégoire l’Illuminateur au Concile de Nicée dans la Gloire des Rois et sur une source arabe du Livre des Mystères du Ciel et de la Terre ...... 210

Personalia In memoriam Stanislaw Chojnacki (1915–2010) (RICHARD PANKHURST – RITA PANKHURST) ...... 215 In memoriam Edward Ullendorff (1920–2011) (MICHAEL A. KNIBB) .. 221 In memoriam Paul Henze (1924–2011) (DAVID SHINN) ...... 226

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Review article MAIJA PRIESS, Die äthiopische Chrysostomos-Anaphora (REINHARD MEßNER) ...... 229 MICHAEL B. AHLAND, Language Death in Mesmes: A Sociolinguistic and Historical-comparative Examination of a Disappearing Ethiopian-Semitic Language (RONNY MEYER) ...... 244

Reviews WALTER W. MÜLLER, Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar (CHRISTIAN JULIEN ROBIN) ...... 263 MARIA LUISA AGATI, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente: Per una codicologia comparata (ALESSANDRO BAUSI) ...... 265 STEFAN BOMBECK, Die Geschichte der heiligen Maria in einer alten äthiopischen Handschrift: Einleitung, kritischer Apparat, Übersetzung, Anmerkungen, Kommentar (SOPHIA DEGE) ...... 268 STANISŁAW CHOJNACKI, Christ’s Resurrection in Ethiopian Painting (CLAIRE BOSC-TIESSÉ) ...... 271 GIANFRANCESCO LUSINI (ed.), History and Language of the Tigre- Speaking Peoples (OLGA KAPELIUK) ...... 274 GALINA ALEXANDROVNA BALASCHOVA, Современная драматургия Эфиопии [Sovremennaja dramaturgija Efiopii, “Moderne dramatische Dichtung Äthiopiens”] (MAXIM ZABOLOTSKIKH) ...... 278 HAGGAI ERLICH, Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa. Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan (ULRICH BRAUKÄMPER) ...... 280 PATRICK DESPLAT, Heilige Stadt – Stadt der Heiligen. Ambivalenzen und Kontroversen islamischer Heiligkeit in Harar, Äthiopien (EWALD WAGNER) ...... 283 MAURO FORNO, Tra Africa e Occidente. Il cardinal Massaja e la missione cattolica in Etiopia nella coscienza e nella politica europee (ANDREU MARTÍNEZ D’ALÒS MONER) ...... 288 ALKE DOHRMANN – DIRK BUSTORF – NICOLE POISSONNIER (Hg.), Schweifgebiete. Festschrift für Ulrich Braukämper (ALEXANDER KELLNER) ...... 292 VOLKER MATTHIES, Unternehmen Magdala: Strafexpedition in Äthiopien (ALEXANDER MECKELBURG) ...... 296 RUDOLF AGSTNER, One week in Ethiopia, forever with God: Guidebook to the Foreigners’ Cemeteries in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ANGELA MÜLLER) ...... 301

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The present issue of AETHIOPICA is dedicated to Veronika Six, who has been for years in charge of cataloguing Ethiopic and, later, Christian Arabic manu- scripts for the KOHD project (Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Hand- schriften in Deutschland) in Hamburg. Veronika Six is still working on a vol- unteer basis on the catalogue of the Christian Arabic (Egyptian) fragments preserved in the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Os- sietzky. AETHIOPICA’s dedication intends to interpret the deep gratitude and appreciation all scholars in Ethiopic manuscript studies feel for Veronika Six’s competence, care, diligence, and commitment. In the course of the year 2011 and for the preparation of the present issue, Angela Müller has replaced Maija Priess in the editorial team of AETHIOPICA. Angela Müller, in cooperation with Thomas Rave, has also already assumed new tasks connected with the new format of the journal that will be partly freely accessible online. To Angela Müller the editorial board of AETHIOPICA expresses the warmest welcome and the best wishes for a good start. Due to a sad coincidence, Prof. Dr. Edward Ullendorff passed away in the same days when the previous issue of AETHIOPICA (no. 13, 2010) dedicated to him, with a note by David Appleyard, was in print. It was unfortu- nately impossible to intervene at that stage. From a necessarily different perspective, yet with equal dedication, Michael A. Knibb commemorates Prof. Dr. Ullendorff in this issue. In compliance with the strict requirements for a consistent format of the journal, a partially new style-sheet has been developed and applied. Beginning with this volume a list of “Bibliographical abbreviations” is introduced which is generally valid for every contribution in the current volume. As for the past issues, conference reports have been made available online at: http://www1. uni-hamburg.de/AETHIOPICA/. The editor and the editorial team would like to express their special thanks to David Appleyard for all the help provided during the preparation of the present issue. Alessandro Bausi

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Bibliographical abbreviations used in this volume

ÄthFor Äthiopistische Forschungen, Vols. 1–35, ed. by ERNST HAMMERSCHMIDT, Vols. 36–40, ed. by SIEGBERT UHLIG, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner (Vols. 1–34), 1977–1992; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Vols. 35–40), 1994ff. AethFor Aethiopistische Forschungen, Vols. 41ff., ed. by SIEGBERT UHLIG, Wies- baden: Harrassowitz, 1998ff. CSCO Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 1903ff. EAE 1–4 SIEGBERT UHLIG (ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Vol. 1: A–C, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003; Vol. 2: D–Ha, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005; Vol. 3: He–N, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007; (in cooperation with ALESSANDRO BAUSI), Vol. 4: O–X, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010 JALL Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, Berlin 1979ff. JES Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa 1963ff. JSS Journal of Semitic Studies, Manchester 1956ff. OrChr Oriens Christianus, Leipzig – Roma – Wiesbaden 1901ff. OrChrP Orientalia Christiana Periodica, Roma 1935ff. PICES 6 GIDEON GOLDENBERG (ed.), Ethiopian Studies. Proceedings of the Sixth Inter- national Conference, Tel-Aviv, 14–17 April 1980, Rotterdam – Boston: A.A. Balkema, 1986 PICES 7 SVEN RUBENSON (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, University of Lund, 26–29 April 1982, Addis Abeba: Institute of Ethiopian Studies – Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies – East Lansing, MI: African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1984 PICES 8 TADDESE BEYENE (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, University of Addis Ababa [26–30 November] 1984, 2 vols., Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies – Frankfurt-am-Main: Frobenius Institut, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, 1988–89 PICES 14 BAYE YIMAM et al. (eds.), Ethiopian Studies at the End of the Second Millennium, Proceedings of the XIVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Novem- ber 6–11, 2000, Addis Ababa, 3 vols., Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 2002 PICES 15 SIEGBERT UHLIG – MARIA BULAKH – DENIS NOSNITSIN – THOMAS RAVE (eds.), Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, July 20–25, 2003 = AethFor 65, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005 PO Patrologia Orientalis, Paris 1903ff. RIÉ I–II: ETIENNE BERNAND – ABRAHAM JOHANNES DREWES – ROGER SCHNEIDER, Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie des périodes pré-axoumite et axoumite, I: Les documents, II: Les planches, Paris: [Académie des inscriptions et belle- lettres] Diffusion de Boccard, 1991. RRALm Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche, Roma 1892ff. RSE Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, Roma 1941ff. ZDMG Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Leipzig – Wiesbaden – Stuttgart 1847ff.

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