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Inner faces of the Mausoleum entrances: a, b - the inner face of the eastern portal, showing the upright syenite slabs which formerly supported a brick arch; c - the western arch as exposed, before excavation of the deposits with which it was blocked.
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Original catalogue wording
Fig. 140 Inner faces of the Mausoleum entrances: a, b - the inner face of the eastern portal, showing the upright syenite slabs which formerly supported a brick arch; c - the western arch as exposed, before excavation of the deposits with which it was blocked. C Scales: 0.5 m
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- Inner faces of the Mausoleum entrances: a, b - the inner face of the eastern portal, showing the upright syenite slabs which formerly supported a brick arch — Fig. 140
Fig. 140 Inner faces of the Mausoleum entrances: a, b - the inner face of the eastern portal, showing the upright syenite slabs which formerly supported a brick arch; c - the western arch as exposed, before excavation of the deposits with which it was blocked. C Scales: 0.5 m
- Deposits at entrances to Mausoleum sidechambers: a - B; b - J. Scales: 0.5 m — Fig. 157
Fig. 157 Deposits at entrances to Mausoleum sidechambers: a - B; b - J. Scales: 0.5 m. Phase II The second phase in the central passage was marked by a dark brown clay containing accumulations of large and medium undressed stones rarely exceeding 0.5 m in maximum dimension
- Place
- Aksum · Tigray · Ethiopia
- Date
- Late 3rd to first half of the 4th century CE
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Cited from
- David W. Phillipson, Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-7, Volume I, (2000), p. c. 168
