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Tcherqos Agobo

Atsbi area, Tigray, Ethiopia

Tcherqos Agobo, eastward view along the nave, through the finely carved arch into the sanctuary, 2006. The manbara tabot is shrouded in cloth and capped by a metal cross. Note the Aksumite frieze and the coffered ceiling.
Tcherqos Agobo, eastward view along the nave, through the finely carved arch into the sanctuary, 2006. The manbara tabot is shrouded in cloth and capped by a metal cross. Note the Aksumite frieze and the coffered ceiling.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 73, fig. 96.
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Place
Atsbi area, Tigray, Ethiopia
Source
Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009)
Book
Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries
Source reference
p. 73, fig. 96.
Type
architectural plate

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