Biete Gabriel-Rufael, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Beta Gabriel-Rafa’el, the northeast end of the trapezoidal court, 2007. The doorway leads to a small chamber with a door to the void created by excavation of the north-south trench. In the floor of the court is the foundation of a circular structure.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 131, fig. 200.

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Place: Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia
Source: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009)
Book: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries
Source reference: p. 131, fig. 200.
Subject date: 12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela)
Type: architectural plate

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

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