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West Elevation of the Church of Betä Amanuʾel, Lalibäla

first half of the thirteenth century · Betä Amanuʾel, Lalibäla, Lasta (Ethiopia)

Medieval · architecture

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Plate 1West Elevation of the Church of Betä Amanuʾel, Lalibäla, Lasta (Ethiopia), first half of the thirteenth century.

© Mikael Muehlbauer 2018

Catalogue entry locator Printed p. 250, fig. 5 (supplied scan PDF p. 247)

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West Elevation of the Church of Betä Amanuʾel, Lalibäla, Lasta (Ethiopia), first half of the thirteenth century.Plate 1 · © Mikael Muehlbauer 2018 · Printed p. 250, fig. 5 (supplied scan PDF p. 247)

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The west elevation shows a thirteenth-century rock-hewn church shaped to recall Aksumite half-timbering.

Date
first half of the thirteenth century
Object type
Architecture
Recorded place
Betä Amanuʾel, Lalibäla, Lasta (Ethiopia)
Holding
Betä Amanuʾel, Lalibäla
Accession
fig. 5
Source locator
Printed p. 250, fig. 5 (supplied scan PDF p. 247)
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.