Tomb of the Brick Arches, Aksum

Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia

Aksum, the interior of the fourth-century ‘Tomb of the Brick Arches’ after excavation in 1995. The underground tomb was carved from the rock, then subdivided into several chambers by means of stone walls incorporating brick arches.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 17, fig. 21.

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Place: Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia
Source: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009)
Book: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries
Source reference: p. 17, fig. 21.
Subject date: Aksumite period
Type: architectural plate

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