Biete Gabriel-Rufael, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Beta Gabriel-Rafa’el, the wall of large stone blocks surrounding the area southeast of the church roof, here seen from the south, 2006. A sketch plan of this feature is shown in fig. 228.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 129, fig. 196.

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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. 129, fig. 196.
Subject date: 12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela)
Type: architectural plan

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

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