The paper focuses on the no longer extant old Ethiopian church of Asmara (Eritrea), which went back to the late Aksumite times and was destroyed and completely rebuilt in 1920 and again in 1938 – when it was turned into today’s cathedral of Enda Maryam. A complete survey is provided of the old church’s physical remains, almost exclusively consisting in wooden capitals and carvings with animals (forming the nave frieze, traced here to the illustrations of the Physiologus), as well as of the relevant historical documents, including unpublished materials of the 1906 Deutsche Aksum-Expedition, in an attempt at reconstructing the earliest phases of the building and its subsequent fortunes throughout the centuries.
Die alte Kirche in Asmara / G. Fiaccadori - In: In Kaiserlichem Auftrag: Die Deutsche Aksum-Expedition 1906 unter Enno LittmannBerlin : Steffen Wenig, 2006. - ISBN 9783929290332. - pp. 295-308
Die alte Kirche in Asmara
G. FiaccadoriPrimo
2006
Abstract
The paper focuses on the no longer extant old Ethiopian church of Asmara (Eritrea), which went back to the late Aksumite times and was destroyed and completely rebuilt in 1920 and again in 1938 – when it was turned into today’s cathedral of Enda Maryam. A complete survey is provided of the old church’s physical remains, almost exclusively consisting in wooden capitals and carvings with animals (forming the nave frieze, traced here to the illustrations of the Physiologus), as well as of the relevant historical documents, including unpublished materials of the 1906 Deutsche Aksum-Expedition, in an attempt at reconstructing the earliest phases of the building and its subsequent fortunes throughout the centuries.
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