**David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009) · phillipson-ancient-churches-2009:locators-15**
Aksum, inside the ‘Mausoleum’, the complex fourth-century tomb whose position the largest stela was intended to mark, 1995. Although built of stones set in mud, the interior walls were originally plastered with a coarse render — as clearly shown at bottom left of this photograph — to give the impression that the tomb had been carved from solid rock.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 14, fig. 15.
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Aksum Mausoleum

Aksum · Tigray · Ethiopia

Date not recorded · architecture

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Aksum, inside the ‘Mausoleum’, the complex fourth-century tomb whose position the largest stela was intended to mark, 1995. Although built of stones set in mud, the interior walls were originally plastered with a coarse render — as clearly shown at bottom left of this photograph — to give the impression that the tomb had been carved from solid rock.

Place: Aksum · Tigray · Ethiopia
Date: Not recorded in the catalogue
Structure or site: Architecture & ruins
Cited from: David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 14, fig. 15. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 29; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.

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Aksum · Tigray · Ethiopia

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Architecture & ruins

Cited from

David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 14, fig. 15. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 29; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.