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Tomb of the False Door, Aksum

Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia

Plate 6.29. Tomb of the False Door: work in progress during the early stages, 1973. Plate 6.30. Tomb of the False Door: the courtyard with the Aksumite wall to the east, and the fall of blocks from the east wall of the tomb into the'Great Pit' area. Plate 6.31
Plate 6.29. Tomb of the False Door: work in progress during the early stages, 1973. Plate 6.30. Tomb of the False Door: the courtyard with the Aksumite wall to the east, and the fall of blocks from the east wall of the tomb into the'Great Pit' area. Plate 6.31S.C. Munro-Hay, *Excavations at Aksum: An Account of Research at the Ancient Ethiopian Capital*, (1989), p. 107
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Place
Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia
Source
Excavations at Aksum: An Account of Research at the Ancient Ethiopian Capital
Book
Excavations at Aksum: An Account of Research at the Ancient Ethiopian Capital
Source reference
p. 107
Subject date
Aksumite period
Type
architectural plate

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Place metadata retained from the reviewed Architecture catalogue; source wording: Aksum, Ethiopia. No camera position supplied.

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