Round 10: Tossup 8

Stuart Munro-Hay mistakenly identified a ruler of this kingdom with a figure named Saifu in a tradition recorded by the scholar Liu Zhi. This kingdom gives its name to a type of frieze with square projecting cross-beams. Cosmas the Monk recorded a now-lost inscription during his visit to this kingdom’s port of Adulis. One of the Nine Saints founded an abbey in this kingdom that produced the Garima Gospels. (10[2])After this kingdom’s conquest of Himyar, (10[1])its general Abraha (10[2])attempted to invade Mecca (10[1])with elephants. A queen named Gudit legendarily ended the rule of this (10[1])kingdom, which stopped building stelae like its namesake “Obelisk” (10[1])after Frumentius’s (10[2])conversion of its king Ezana. For 10 points, name this kingdom in the Horn of Africa (10[1])that converted to Christianity in the fourth century. ■END■ (10[1])

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