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Measured Ground Plan and Elevation, Tātār Gur Tumulus

ca. tenth–fourteenth century · Tātār Gur Tumulus, North Šäwa, Amhara (Ethiopia)

Medieval · architecture

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Plate 1Measured 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.

Translated by Mikael Muehlbauer; underlying figure by Bertrand Poissonnier, published in La culture Shay d’Éthiopie (2017), fig. 4.10.

Catalogue entry locator Printed p. 248, fig. 3 (supplied scan PDF p. 245)

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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.Plate 1 · Translated by Mikael Muehlbauer; underlying figure by Bertrand Poissonnier, published in La culture Shay d’Éthiopie (2017), fig. 4.10. · Printed p. 248, fig. 3 (supplied scan PDF p. 245)

What the record shows

A measured ground plan and two sections document the tumulus, sepulcher, corridor, and facing levels at Tātār Gur.

Date
ca. tenth–fourteenth century
Object type
Architecture
Recorded place
Tātār Gur Tumulus, North Šäwa, Amhara (Ethiopia)
Holding
Published archaeological drawing
Accession
fig. 3
Source locator
Printed p. 248, fig. 3 (supplied scan PDF p. 245)
Source citation
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.