File:Carved Stone Object With Crescent Moon, Yeha, Ethiopia (3146613382).jpg
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This ancient object is also in the Iqa-bet, next to the Church of Abba Afse in Yeha, Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia. It is similar to a piece from Tigray now in the National Museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but considerably cruder. The object in the National Museum is described as a "stone incense burner" dating to the 6th or 5th century before the common era. (I am again indebted to the blog "Will's Way" willdoherty.org/wordpress/?cat=71 for the information about the similar object on display in Addis; the author is more thorough about documenting his museum photos than I am. If you follow the link to the blog and scroll down, you will come to the entry on the National Museum in Addis. There you will find a photo of the incense burner that looks so much like this object,) Alas, I didn't think to peer at the top of the piece, so I do not know whether the top is solid or concave, like an incense burner. Let's just assume this is an incense burner, OK? It keeps everything neat and tidy. No description of this photo would be complete without praise for the beauty and simplicity of the small cup to the left of the incense burner. The cup is exquisitely formed and decorated. The thin light-colored fillet that encircles the cup at the level of the handle or lug is what makes the piece such a triumph of design. I wonder whether it was for ritual or household use. I wouldn't mind having a set of four . . . |
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Carved Stone Object With Crescent Moon, Yeha, Ethiopia
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| Author | A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest |
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