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Two Ethiopian Churches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Derek Matthews
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Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 120 , December 1956 , pp. 226 - 229
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1956

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1 The Ethiopian word ‘ martul ’ comes from the Greek , ‘ witness ’, ‘ testimony ’,. and hence ‘ martyr ’ and by an extension the chapel of a martyr or saint. See Dillmann, , LexArch., col. 171.Google Scholar

2 Quoted from the translation of Almeida’s History in ‘ Some Records of Ethiopia’ (Becking-ham and Huntingford), Hakluyt Soc, 2 Ser., vol. evil, 1954, 104.

3 Narrative (Hakluyt Soc., vol. LXIV, 1881), 350.

4 See my Fung Kingdom of Sennar (Bellows, 1951), 281’3.

5 Op. cit., pp. 105–7. For Beke see Archaeologia, XXXII, 1847, 38–57 and Journ. R. Geogr. Soc., XIV, 26.

6 The ancient church in the monastery of Debra Damo (see ANTIQUITY, XXIII) has a stair leading to lofts and rooms in the upper part of the church.

7 It is said that Indian builders were concerned in the erection of the palaces of Gondar; see Villard, Monneret de in Rivista degli Studi Orientali (Rome), 17, 328,Google Scholar quoting Peieer, P.E., Zur geschichte Ab. im 17 Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1898, p. 38.Google Scholar