What the record shows
The twin churches of Biete Golgotha and Biete Mikael (Debre Sina), joined northern-group sanctuaries; Golgotha shelters the reliefs of saints and the tomb traditionally held to be King Lalibela's.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- Biete Golgotha and Biete Mikael, Lalibela
The twin churches of Biete Golgotha and Biete Mikael (Debre Sina), joined northern-group sanctuaries; Golgotha shelters the reliefs of saints and the tomb traditionally held to be King Lalibela's.
- Biete Golgotha
Beta Golgotha, life-size relief-carving of an ecclesiastic holding a book and processional cross, 2008. The label ‘Tcherqos’, added in the arch long afterwards and first noted in 1845, may not correctly identify the person depicted.
- Place
- Lalibela · Amhara · Ethiopia
- Date
- 12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela)
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Cited from
- David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 171, fig. 265. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 186; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
