ERC HornEast – Prospections : Bilet (Tigray, Éthiopie), mars 2018 – Nettoyage et marquage des stèles de Bilet

In March 2018, a multidisciplinary team from the ERC HornEast project, led by Julien Loiseau, carried out a survay at the medieval Islamic archaeological site of Bilet (Eastern Tigray, Ethiopia). The team was composed of Julien Loiseau (historian, Aix-Marseille University, director of the ERC HornEast project), Bertrand Hirsch (historian, University Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne), Amélie Chekroun (historian, CNRS, IREMAM), Deresse Ayenachew (historian, Debre Berhan University, ERC HornEast). The project team, with the support of the ARCCH and the Cultural and Tourism Office of Tigray, as well as Goitom Besrat, head of the Kwiḥa Kebele, identified the site from which the 17 known stelae originated. The data was processed and uploaded by Maryasha Barbé (Archivist, ERC HornEast) in 2022. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 726206).Discovery of funerary stelae with epigraphs in Arabic (4th-7th century of the Hegira, 10th-14th centuries of the common era). Cleaning and marking of the Bilet stelae at the church of Kwiḥa Čǝrqos.Découverte de stèles funéraires épigraphiées en arabe (4e-7e siècle de l’hégire, 10e-14e siècles de l’ère commune). Nettoyage et marquage des stèles de Bilet à l’église de Kwiḥa Čǝrqos