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Plate 1David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009) · phillipson-ancient-churches-2009:locators-272,273
Lalibela, a wall built of large stone blocks, 2006. Located within the area of the modern town some 150 m northwest of Beta Mika’el, this is the only example of such walling at Lalibela that is not associated with a hypogeum.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 177, fig. 272.
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Lalibela archaeological features

Lalibela · Amhara · Ethiopia

Date not recorded · architecture

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Lalibela, a wall built of large stone blocks, 2006. Located within the area of the modern town some 150 m northwest of Beta Mika’el, this is the only example of such walling at Lalibela that is not associated with a hypogeum.

Place: Lalibela · Amhara · 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. 177, fig. 272. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 192; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.

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Place

Lalibela · Amhara · 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. 177, fig. 272. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 192; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.