Lalibela Eastern Complex

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Lalibela, tunnel adjacent to Beta Merkurios in the Eastern Complex’s peripheral trench, 2006. This tunnel forms part of a feature interpreted by Lepage (2002) as part of a water-control mechanism (cf. fig. 226 and discussion on pp. 145–6).David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 125, fig. 190.

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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. 125, fig. 190.
Type: architectural plate

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