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Mellehayzengi, the newly excavated church of Petros, 2006. — David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009) · phillipson-ancient-churches-2009:locators-186
Mellehayzengi, the newly excavated church of Petros, 2006.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 121, fig. 186.
RightsDisplayed by Habesha History with permission from David W. Phillipson for this publication. This is not an open licence and does not grant downstream reuse.
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Mellehayzengi, the newly excavated church of Petros, 2006. — Mellehayzengi, the newly excavated church of Petros, 2006.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 121, fig. 186.RightsDisplayed by Habesha History with permission from David W. Phillipson for this publication. This is not an open licence and does not grant downstream reuse.
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Petros hypogean church, Mellehayzengi

Mellehayzengi, eastern Tigray · Tigray · Ethiopia

Date not recorded · architecture

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Mellehayzengi, the newly excavated church of Petros, 2006.

Place: Mellehayzengi, eastern Tigray · 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. 121, fig. 186. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 136; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.

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David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 121, fig. 186. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 136; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174. printed scholarly source and reviewed PDF evidence