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A chalice from Venice for Emperor Dāwit of Ethiopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Marilyn E. Heldman
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The various documents concerning Emperor Dāwit's embassy to the Republic of Venice in 1402 have been brought together in Carlo Conti Rossini's article of 1927 on European influence upon Ethiopian art before the coming of Jesuit missionaries in the mid sixteenth century. The purpose of this brief paper is to expand the story of Dāwit's embassy with a short document, which sheds some light upon the motives for this and subsequent Ethiopian embassies to European nations during the period before the Adalite invasions that began in 1529.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , October 1990 , pp. 442 - 445
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1990

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