Stele 2: The Second Largest Stele
The second tallest stele is 24.6m high
and 170 tonnes in weight. Its beautiful design is very similar to that
of Stele 3, but with eleven stories: One with doors, one with small
windows and nine with similarly carved windows. This stele is decorated
on its four sides. Looted by Fascist Italy in 1937, it was taken to Rome
in three pieces. Unable to produce anything of a similar size or
quality of such a wonderfully chiselled stele, Benito Mussolini found
some consolation by looting this wonderful architectural masterpiece. It
took seven decades before Italy finally succumbed to the intense
diplomatic and popular pressure from Ethiopia and friends of Ethiopia to
return the stolen stele to its rightful owners. The obelisk was
returned home to Ethiopia in 2005, prompting a nation–wide celebration.
ምንም አስተያየቶች የሉም:
አስተያየት ይለጥፉ