Plates
Twelve from the collection A temple, two gold coins, a stelae field, a church cut into rock, and seven painted things — folios, an icon, a mural, a royal portrait. Each plate names its holder, its licence and its source.
The Great Temple at Yeha Dressed sandstone, Yeha, Tǝgray · built between the 8th and 5th centuries BCE Sailko · CC BY 3.0 St Mark, the Garima Gospels Illuminated folio, Abba Garima Monastery, Tǝgray · c. 390–660 CE Ethiopian Heritage Fund · Public domain Gold coin of Aphilas Aksumite gold, Münzkabinett Berlin, object 2382317 · early 4th century CE Reinhard Saczewski / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin · Public domain Gold coin of ʿEzana Aksumite gold, British Museum 1989,0518.41 · c. 300–340 CE British Museum; photograph uploaded by Ismoon · CC BY-SA 4.0 The stelae field at Aksum Carved granite, Aksum, Tǝgray · 3rd–4th centuries CE A. Savin, Wikimedia Commons · Free Art License 1.3 Centre-cropped to 16:9 and re-encoded for this site. Yəkunno Amlak Wall painting, Gännätä Maryam church, Lalibela · c. 1270–1285 Anonymous Ethiopian painter; reproduced in David W. Phillipson (2009), fig. 178 · Public domain Gäbrä Mäsqäl Lalibäla Panel painting, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Chojnacki cat. 17 · 15th century Stanislaw Chojnacki, Ethiopian Icons (2000), cat. 17 · Public domain A canon table Illuminated Gospel, Amhara peoples, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1998.66) · late 14th–early 15th century The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 St Mark, the Gunda Gunde Gospels Illuminated folio, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.850, fol. 60v · first half of the 16th century Walters Art Museum · CC0 Ləbnä Dəngəl Oil portrait, Giovio series, Uffizi Galleries · c. 1552–1568 Cristofano dell’Altissimo, after the Giovio prototype · Public domain Bete Giyorgis, Lalibela Rock-hewn church, Lalibela, Lasta · 12th–13th centuries Ji-Elle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 Centre-cropped to 16:9 and re-encoded for this site. Wälättä P̣eṭros Manuscript painting, Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros, Qʷäraṭa, Lake Tana · 1716–1721 Anonymous Ethiopian painter · Public domain Spotted a caption that is wrong, or a picture that should not be here? That is exactly the sort of note to send .
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