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Biete Ghiorgis
Lalibela · Artist’s reconstruction
About the scene
A church carved from living rock. Its form follows published plans, with details simplified. The builders, clothing, tools and sequence are illustrative, not a record of its construction.
Architecture: David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia (2009), pp. 148–152, figs. 230, 233–235; Hartmut Pascher in L’Art en Éthiopie (2005), pp. 121–127. Rock-cut method: Phillipson, p. 194.