In Imperial Order: The German Aksum Expedition 1906 under Enno Littmann, Volume 3: Ethnographic, church-historical and archaeological-historical investigations — illustrated page 172
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- Habesha History book corpus — In Imperial Order: The German Aksum Expedition 1906 under Enno Littmann, Volume 3: Ethnographic, church-historical and archaeological-historical investigations
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- In Imperial Order: The German Aksum Expedition 1906 under Enno Littmann, Volume 3: Ethnographic, church-historical and archaeological-historical investigations
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Fig. 3 Parchment roll, first published in DAE 3: 96, Fig. 271 (Photo: DAE 976, MBA 2248.24).
Fig. 265-267 show the metal heads of the Linger crutches, which mainly, braced in the axillary cavity, serve as support for the priests during the divine services, which often last for hours or even days almost without a break. They are also often used as hiking sticks. ... The equipment of a priest or monk is completed by a pony tail with a protected felt and a metal handle against the plague of flies, as well as a gospel stuck in a strong, strangely nested rawhide case with a carrying strap (Figs. 268 and 269). A book or psalter, the parchment pages of which are covered with the monumental ancient Ethiopian script, mostly very carefully written on finely incised lines. The punctuation marks, individual letters and occasionally whole words and lines, the names of God, Jesus, Mary and the saints (according to Littmann) are written in bright vermillion. A few awkwardly drawn headers, a Crucifixion or Mary
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