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Mika’el Amba, the west façade, showing late twentieth-century alterations to the doorway, 2006.5 views
Architecture & ruins

Mika’el Amba

Atsbi area

Ancient Churches of Ethiopia (2009)p. 96, fig. 135.

David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 96, fig. 135.

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Female Figure, Ethiopia (Beta Esra'el), 20th century, glazed terra-cotta, Salem, The Peabody Essex Museum, E68752.View image
Sculpture, reliefs & stelae20th century

Female Figure

Ethiopia (Beta Esra'el)

Ethiopia at the Crossroads (2023)Printed p. 90, cat. 10 (supplied scan PDF p. 90)

Christine Sciacca, ed., Ethiopia at the Crossroads (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2023). · Printed p. 90, cat. 10 (supplied scan PDF p. 90) · Kathy Tarantola

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A sketch of the hilltop palace of Ras Alula with thatched-roof buildings overlooking the town of Asmara.View image
Historical illustration19th-century illustration

Ras Alula’s palace on a hill overlooking Asmara

Asmara

The Sacred City of the Ethiopians: Being a Record of Travel and Research in Abyssinia in 1893p. 19

J. Theodore Bent, The Sacred City of the Ethiopians: Being a Record of Travel and Research in Abyssinia in 1893, 1896, p. 19. Image: Ethiopia Engraved / Link Ethiopia.

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Miniature of Saint George and the dragon with Berutawit; original to the text. Red and gold are original, while blue may be later.View image
Manuscript paintingearly 19th century

Saint George and the dragon

Princeton University LibraryPrinceton Ethiopic Manuscripts, no. 52, f. 60v

Princeton University Library, Princeton Ethiopic Manuscripts, no. 52, f. 60v. Manuscript dated early 19th century in the institutional catalogue.

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The manuscript's leather satchel used for storage or transportationView image
Manuscript satchel

Leather manuscript satchel — MS Aeth. d. 23

Treasures of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (2019)p. 27, fig. 3.5

Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Aeth. d. 23; reproduced in Jacopo Gnisci (ed.), Treasures of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Manar al-Athar, University of Oxford, 2019), p. 27, fig. 3.5; image PDF p. 41; caption printed p. 27 / PDF p. 41.

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East Elevation of the Half-Timbered Church of Agobo Qirqos near Aṣbi, Tigray (Ethiopia), twelfth century(?).View image
Architecturetwelfth century (?)

East Elevation of the Half-Timbered Church of Agobo Qirqos

Ethiopia

Ethiopia at the Crossroads (2023)Printed p. 247, fig. 2 (supplied scan PDF p. 244)

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. 247, fig. 2 (supplied scan PDF p. 244) · © Mikael Muehlbauer 2018

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Hildephonsus of Toledo sits upon the throne, wears the garment given to him by Mary, and reads the Miracles of Mary; The throne and garment are after Hildephonsus of Toledo's death; Hildephonsus of Toledo's successor falling and being smitten by an angel having touched Mary's gifts to Hildephonsus without permissionView image
Manuscript paintings17th

Hildephonsus of Toledo sits upon the throne, wears the garment given to him by Mary, and reads the Miracles of Mary; The throne and garment are after Hildephonsus of Toledo's death; Hildephonsus of Toledo's successor falling and being smitten by an angel having touched Mary's gifts to Hildephonsus without permission — Or 520, f. 142v

Ethiopia

Princeton · Miracles of Mary (PEMM)520 · f. 142v

British Library, Or 520, f. 142v. Digitised by the British Library.

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