From Stone to Dust: The Life of the Kufic-Inscribed Frieze of Wuqro Cherqos in Tigray, Ethiopia
Abstract Until 2010 (when it was broken by a tourist), a curious Kufic-inscribed sandstone block greeted those who entered the narthex of the eleventh-century church of Wuqro Cherqos in East Tigray, Ethiopia. My paper identifies the origin of this misunderstood fragment and presents it in the longue...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Muqarnas
Year: 2021, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-34 |
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B Fatimids B Kufic B Architecture B Copts B Egypt B Sulayhids B spolia B Textiles B Trade B Mamluks B Epigraphy B Ethiopia B Yemen |
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