Debre Damo Monastery

Debre Damo, Tigray, Ethiopia

Debra Damo, the northern window in the east wall of the large church’s anteroom, 1993. The stair leading to the lofts is clearly visible through the window. Mordini (1961: 133) referred to the chambers here designated anteroom and vestibule as first and second vestibules respectively.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 58, fig. 72.

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Place: Debre Damo, Tigray, Ethiopia
Source: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009)
Book: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries
Source reference: p. 58, fig. 72.
Subject date: 6th century (traditional foundation, reign of Gebre Meskel)
Type: architectural plate

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