Menelik I
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Menelik I was the first Emperor of Ethiopia's Solomonic dynasty. According to the Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, in the 10th century BC he is said to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynast
Detail from a larger painting in the church at Axum
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Emperor Menelik I Bringing the Zion Tabot [ Ark of the covenant ] to Axum.
Queen of Sheba
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The Queen of Sheba, named Bilqis in Arabic and Makeda in Geʽez, is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the original story, she brings a caravan of valuable gifts for Solomon, the fourth K
Menelik I
…to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia, so named because Menelik I was the son of the biblical King Solomon of ancient Israel and of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba. According to the medieval Ethiopian book, the Kebra Nagast, written in Geʽez in 1321 CE, his name was Bäynä Ləḥkəm (from Arabic…
Queen of Sheba by Edward Slocombe, 1907
Queen of Sheba and Solomon, around 1280, window now in Cologne Cathedral, Germany
245–246 CE Jewish mural depicting Solomon's court and one labeled "co-chair" receiving the Queen of Sheba and her maidservant from the Dura Europos Synagogue
King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, from The History of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca