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Cross
Ethiopian
14th century

Single Leaf from a Gospel Book with a Portrait of St Luke
Ethiopian Orthodox (Ethiopia)
ca. 1440–1480

Coin of Endybis (AV.1 Type)
Ethiopian (Aksum, Ethiopia)
295–310

Prayer book with case (mahdar)
Wäldä Maryam
19th century

Ants & Ceramicists 4
Elias Sime
2009–2011

Selecha
Elias Sime
2008

The Cross, the Church, and the Butterfly

Skunder Boghossian

1980s

Wall Painting with Saint Filatäwos (Philotheos of Antioch)
Ethiopian (Gondar, Ethiopia)
second half 17th century

Headrest
Sidaama peoples (?)
19th–20th century

The Virgin and Apostle Capital
1170s

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)
Northern Highlands artist
15th century

Bowl Lyre
probably Ethiopian
19th century

Amhara or Tigrinya peoples

19th century

Processional Cross
Ethiopia, Lasta region
early 15th century

Coin of ʿEzana (AV.1 Type)
Ethiopian (Aksum, Ethiopia)
mid-340s–380

Ṣanāṣel (sistrum)
Ethiopia
20th century

Wall Painting with Saints Täklä Haymanot and Ewosṭatewos
Ethiopian (Gondar, Ethiopia)
second half 17th century

Amhara or Tigrinya peoples

19th century

Ceremonial Whisk (čera or chira)
Ethiopian
19th–20th century

Headrest
Sidaama peoples (?)
19th–20th century

Wall painting of the Virgin and Child with donors
Northern Highlands artist
ca. 1800

Pectoral
Ethiopian (Aksum, Ethiopia)
15th century

Manuscript
Ethiopian Orthodox (Ethiopia)
ca. 1500

Cross with Santa Maria Maggiore Icon
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
17th century

The Saint James the Greater Capital
1170s

Processional Cross (qäqwami mäsqäl)
Amhara or Tigrinya peoples
15th–16th century

Coin - Armah AE.1 Type
Ethiopian (Aksum, Ethiopia)
530s–50s

Double Diptych Icon Pendant
Amhara or Tigrinya peoples
early 18th century

Coin of Ǝllä Gäbäz (AV.1 Type)
Ethiopian (Aksum, Ethiopia)
550s–60s

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)
Northern Highlands artist
13th–14th century

Wall Painting with Saint Sosənna (Susanna) and Her Persecutors
Ethiopian (Gondar, Ethiopia)
second half 17th century

Diptych with Saint George and the Virgin and Child
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
late 15th–early 16th century

Diptych Icon with St. George and the Virgin Eleousa
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
ca 1500, and possibly Crete, ca 1480–90

Ethiopian

19th century

Cross
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
early 16th century

Amhara or Tigrinya peoples

19th century

Anonymous Coin (AR.2 Gilt Type)
Ethiopian (Aksum, Ethiopia)
mid-4th–mid-6th century

Gospel manuscript with separated leaves
Ethiopian (Northern Highlands, Tigray, Ethiopia)
1510-1530

Amhara or Tigrinya peoples

19th century

Diptych with the Kiss of St. John
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
15th century