Jerusalem Inscription of Yoḥannəs IV, Emperor of Ethiopia

Abstract

The article contains the first publication of the text and commented translation of an inscription in the Gə‘əz language engraved in AD 1890–1891 over the entrance to the oratory of the Residence of the Archbishop of the Ethiopian Church in Jerusalem, which is situated in the Old City, near the 8th station of the Via Dolorosa. A considerable moneyed assistance of the Ethiopian community in the Holy City by the second great integrator of Ethiopia in the Modern Times, the Emperor Yoḥannəs IV, which is commemorated in the inscription, proved to be reflected also in his correspondence with local monks enclosed to a chronicle of him.