What the record shows
The Tomb of Adam, a massive free-standing block of rock pierced by a passage at the western entry to Lalibela's northern group; a hermit's cell is cut in its upper storey.
Source record notes
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- Tomb of Adam, Lalibela
The Tomb of Adam, a massive free-standing block of rock pierced by a passage at the western entry to Lalibela's northern group; a hermit's cell is cut in its upper storey.
- Tomb of Adam, Lalibela
The Tomb of Adam, viewed from the west, 2006. Part of the façade of Beta Golgotha is visible in the background, with the Aksumite-style doorway which originally formed the western entrance to the court surrounding Beta Maryam.
- 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. 173, fig. 268. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 188; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
