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Dear Paul,
Herewith a few not awfully good views of the Holy Trinity mural in the
church of Debre Berhan Sellase (Debre Birhan Selassie; 'Light of the
Trinity') near Gondar in Ethiopia. According to Elisabeth Biasio's
entry "Ethiopia and Eritrea" in the _Grove Art Online_, the church is
early nineteenth-century (ca. 1815-20). Not altogether surprisingly,
tourist-industry websites manage to suggest/proclaim greater antiquity.
http://tinyurl.com/o7o4x
http://tinyurl.com/o5tv2
There are several others on this page:
http://www.photographersdirect.com/stockimages/b/birhan.asp
Best,
John Dillon
On Monday, September 4, 2006, at 4:27 am, Paul Chandler wrote:
> Would anyone know of any African images of the Holy Trinity,
> perhaps from
> Ethiopian or Coptic sources? A colleague has asked me and I cannot
> come up
> with anything. Neither of us has access to any of the big image
> databases,such as the Princeton Index of Christian Art. Any help
> would be much
> appreciated, perhaps off-list if it does not seem of direct
> medieval-religion interest. -- Paul Chandler
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