Scribal priest outside a court in Gondar

Gondar, Ethiopia

A scribal priest, a man wearing a turban, offers his services outside a court in Gondar. In the background one of the castles erected by the Portuguese in the 16th century.Touring Club Italiano, BAP 1124; via Wikimedia Commons

Source record

Date of image: 1954
Place: Gondar, Ethiopia
Source: Archivio Storico del Touring Club Italiano, via Wikimedia Commons

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The catalog identifies Gondar but not the court. The architectural attribution is preserved as source wording rather than adopted as a corrected historical claim.

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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). Attribution: Touring Club Italiano.

Touring Club Italiano–Wikimedia Italia permission; Commons VRT ticket 2022090510003181.

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