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Lalibela, a wall built of large stone blocks, 2006. Located within the area of the modern town some 150 m northwest of Beta Mika’el, this is the only example of such walling at Lalibela that is not associated with a hypogeum.

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Architecture & ruins

Lalibela archaeological features

Lalibela

Ancient Churches of Ethiopia (2009)p. 177, fig. 272.

David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 177, fig. 272.

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Old Enda Maryam, Asmara (destroyed 1919–20): 1909 oblique exterior showing the flat vegetal roof, timber porch posts and layered wall construction.

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Architecture & ruins

Old Enda Maryam, Asmara (destroyed 1919–20)

Asmara, Eritrea

Wikimedia Commons

Unknown author · Public domain — PD-old-70-expired, via Wikimedia Commons

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Toppled Stela (with Modern Doorway to Visit Tomb Below), Aksum Stelae Park, Tigray (Ethiopia), fourth century CE (?), limestone, original H 30 m (98 ft.).

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Architecturefourth century CE (?)

Toppled Stela (with Modern Doorway to Visit Tomb Below), Aksum Stelae Park

Ethiopia

Ethiopia at the Crossroads (2023)Printed p. 246, fig. 1 (supplied scan PDF p. 243)

Mikael Muehlbauer, “Ancient Ethiopian Architecture and Its Medieval Legacy,” in Ethiopia at the Crossroads, ed. Christine Sciacca (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2023), pp. 245–257. · Printed p. 246, fig. 1 (supplied scan PDF p. 243) · © Mikael Muehlbauer 2016

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Measured Ground Plan and Elevation, Tātār Gur Tumulus, North Šäwa, Amhara (Ethiopia), ca. tenth–fourteenth century. Translated by Mikael Muehlbauer from Bertrand Poissonnier, “Le tumulus de Tātār Gur (Mänz): un dolmen en couloir,” in La culture Shay d’Éthiopie (Xe–XIVe siècles): Recherches archéologiques et historiques sur une élite païenne, ed. François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar and Bertrand Poissonnier (Addis Ababa: Centre français des études éthiopiennes, 2017), fig. 4.10.

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Architectureca. tenth–fourteenth century

Measured Ground Plan and Elevation, Tātār Gur Tumulus

Ethiopia

Ethiopia at the Crossroads (2023)Printed p. 248, fig. 3 (supplied scan PDF p. 245)

Mikael Muehlbauer, “Ancient Ethiopian Architecture and Its Medieval Legacy,” in Ethiopia at the Crossroads, ed. Christine Sciacca (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2023), pp. 245–257. · Printed p. 248, fig. 3 (supplied scan PDF p. 245) · Translated by Mikael Muehlbauer; underlying figure by Bertrand Poissonnier, published in La culture Shay d’Éthiopie (2017), fig. 4.10.

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Detail of East Wall and Dome of Southernmost Chamber, Cathedral of Maryam Nazret, ʿAddi Abunä, Tigray (Ethiopia), mid-twelfth century.

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Architecturemid-twelfth century

Detail of East Wall and Dome of Southernmost Chamber, Cathedral of Maryam Nazret

Ethiopia

Ethiopia at the Crossroads (2023)Printed p. 249, fig. 4 (supplied scan PDF p. 246)

Mikael Muehlbauer, “Ancient Ethiopian Architecture and Its Medieval Legacy,” in Ethiopia at the Crossroads, ed. Christine Sciacca (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2023), pp. 245–257. · Printed p. 249, fig. 4 (supplied scan PDF p. 246) · © Mikael Muehlbauer 2018

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West Elevation of the Church of Betä Amanuʾel, Lalibäla, Lasta (Ethiopia), first half of the thirteenth century.

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Architecturefirst half of the thirteenth century

West Elevation of the Church of Betä Amanuʾel, Lalibäla

Ethiopia

Ethiopia at the Crossroads (2023)Printed p. 250, fig. 5 (supplied scan PDF p. 247)

Mikael Muehlbauer, “Ancient Ethiopian Architecture and Its Medieval Legacy,” in Ethiopia at the Crossroads, ed. Christine Sciacca (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2023), pp. 245–257. · Printed p. 250, fig. 5 (supplied scan PDF p. 247) · © Mikael Muehlbauer 2018

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