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

mid-twelfth century · Cathedral of Maryam Nazret, ʿAddi Abunä, Tigray (Ethiopia)

Medieval · architecture

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Plate 1Detail of East Wall and Dome of Southernmost Chamber, Cathedral of Maryam Nazret, ʿAddi Abunä, Tigray (Ethiopia), mid-twelfth century.

© Mikael Muehlbauer 2018

Catalogue entry locator Printed p. 249, fig. 4 (supplied scan PDF p. 246)

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Detail of East Wall and Dome of Southernmost Chamber, Cathedral of Maryam Nazret, ʿAddi Abunä, Tigray (Ethiopia), mid-twelfth century.Plate 1 · © Mikael Muehlbauer 2018 · Printed p. 249, fig. 4 (supplied scan PDF p. 246)

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A close view of the cathedral's east wall and dome documents its mid-twelfth-century masonry.

Date
mid-twelfth century
Object type
Architecture
Recorded place
Cathedral of Maryam Nazret, ʿAddi Abunä, Tigray (Ethiopia)
Holding
Cathedral of Maryam Nazret
Accession
fig. 4
Source locator
Printed p. 249, fig. 4 (supplied scan PDF p. 246)
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.