Lalibela Eastern Complex

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Lalibela, the peripheral trench of the Eastern Complex, 2007. Lepage (2002) interpreted some of the features shown here as part of a water-control mechanism. The scaffold visible in the background protects the south façade of Beta Abba Libanos.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 146, fig. 226.

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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. 146, fig. 226.
Type: architectural plate

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