A stone-built temple near Adua in northern Ethiopia which is the best preserved example of Pre-Axumite architecture. Constructed of well-dressed blocks, it is a double-storey building, 25 metres in length, with tiny windows. It was decorated with sculptures in a typical south Arabian-derived style, and with inscriptions in the Himyaritic syllabary.
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied