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The Underground Mausoleum, Aksum

Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia

Fig. 140 Inner faces of the Mausoleum entrances: a, b - the inner face of the eastern portal, showing the upright syenite slabs which formerly supported a brick arch; c - the western arch as exposed, before excavation of the deposits with which it was blocked. C Scales: 0.5 m
Fig. 140 Inner faces of the Mausoleum entrances: a, b - the inner face of the eastern portal, showing the upright syenite slabs which formerly supported a brick arch; c - the western arch as exposed, before excavation of the deposits with which it was blocked. C Scales: 0.5 mDavid W. Phillipson, *Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-7, Volume I*, (2000), p. c. 168
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Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia
Source
Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-7, Volume I
Book
Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-7, Volume I
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p. c. 168
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architectural plate

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