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Biete Gabriel-Rufael, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Beta Gabriel-Rafa’el, the deep triangular court, from the northwest, 2006. Clearly visible are the western part of the principal 17-m-high façade and the platform outside the original door of Beta Rafa’el. Two of the shafts leading to the cistern are set in the floor.
Beta Gabriel-Rafa’el, the deep triangular court, from the northwest, 2006. Clearly visible are the western part of the principal 17-m-high façade and the platform outside the original door of Beta Rafa’el. Two of the shafts leading to the cistern are set in the floor.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 130, fig. 197.
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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. 130, fig. 197.
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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