Publication day🥳🥳
Together with my dear colleague Bar Kribus I wrote on

"Betä Esra'el (Ethiopian Jewish)–Ethiopian Orthodox Interaction in the Semien Mountains of Northern Ethiopia. A View from the Bet Esra'el Monastic Centre of Semien Menata"

www.arc-humanities.org/978164189387...

Medieval Ethiopia in a Global Frame - workshop

Tomorrow

as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

"I touched His halo!" 😇

Ethiopia, 18th c. #StMary #VirginMary #BabyJesus #halo #nagaramaryam #africanart

Dejazmatch Tasfāy and his personal seal 🦭

Patron portraits have a long history in Ethiopian-Eritrean art, the earliest examples (afaik) stemming from the 13th century. The use of personal seals seems to be more recent.

Ethiopia, 19th–20th c. #dejazmach #tasfay #seal #nobleman #patron #africanart