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This beautiful, illuminated hagiography (collection of Dimā Giyorgis monastery in Ethiopia), contains the hagiography of a local saint, Abbā Takla Alfā, celebrated especially at the monastery and its environs.

(EMDA 00322): www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/...
Abbā Takla Alfā dancing in an illuminated hagiography, collection of Dimā Giyorgis monastery, Ethiopia.
December 27, 2024 at 3:03 PM
angieblup.bsky.social
#Fotovorschlag
'Fels und Stein'
Lalibela
Ethiopia
In die Erde gehauene Felsenkirche. Sankt Giyorgis in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Von oben fotografiert. Kreuz auf dem Dach in den Felsen gehauen
June 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
artethiopic.bsky.social
St George of Lydda riding in on a white horse 🎠

Ethiopia, 16th c. (?) #george #saintgeorge #giyorgis #horse #icon #africanart
Ethiopian depiction of Saint George the Dragon-Killer riding a white horse and holding a spear. The saint is dressed in red and yellow. No dragon is featured.
February 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
acbm.bsky.social
An anatomically correct horse and some captions in Gəʕəz:

ቅዱስ፡ጊዮርጊስ፡ሰማዕት፡
/qəddus Giyorgis sämaʕt/
Saint George the Martyr

ቢሩታዊት፡
/Birutawit/
the Beiruti girl

ደራጎን፡ከይ[ሲ፡]
/däragon käysi/
dragon-snake
enniusredloeb.bsky.social Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Apr 23
Today is St George's day and here is St George slaying the dragon

BL Or 516; አርባዕቱ ወንጌል The Four Gospels; 17th century; Ethiopia; f.99v
April 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
rhaplord.bsky.social
Arganonä Maryam, a 17th-century manuscript depicting the 15th-century scholar Giyorgis of Sägla

Giyorgis was one of the most influential Ge'ez scholars of the late Middle Ages, and is today venerated as a saint
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-intell...
December 15, 2024 at 8:19 PM
rhaplord.bsky.social
Arganonä Maryam, a 17th-century manuscript depicting the 15th-century scholar Giyorgis of Sägla

Giyorgis was one of the most influential Ge'ez scholars of the late Middle Ages, and is today venerated as a saint
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-intell...
January 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
ispeaktruth2u.bsky.social
Maybe I'm just easily impressed, but the idea of people carving out entire churches and the like- from stone- leaves me stunned. Like Ethiopia's 13c Bet Giyorgis.
December 12, 2024 at 9:27 PM
johntrterry.bsky.social
A student has painted this watercolor of the church of Bete Giyorgis at Lalibela. I'm speechless.
December 16, 2023 at 3:05 AM
bibliostoriae.bsky.social
" La vie du « balambaras » Giyorgis, un aventurier grec en Éthiopie à la fin du XIXe siècle "

Conférence "Les Trésors de Richelieu" @labnf.bsky.social @inha.fr

Par Vanessa Desclaux, Dido Lykoudis et Anaïs Wion #IMAF

📆 19/05 Galerie Colbert, auditorium Lichtenstein

➡️ www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/la...
La vie du « balambaras » Giyorgis, un aventurier grec en Éthiopie à la fin du XIXe siècle
BnF - Site institutionnel
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May 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
inha.fr
#TresorsDeRichelieu La vie du balambaras Giyorgis

Découverte du manuscrit Éthiopien 210 de la BnF qui présente un récit tout à fait unique : la vie en images de Giyorgis à la manière éthiopienne, mais avec une iconographie étonnante.

🗓️ 19/05

👉 https://inha.pulse.ly/paqgs9pfyx

#INHA
May 17, 2026 at 8:59 AM
brett-baudin.bsky.social
#aiart #promptshare
Title: Ash and Amens
Style: Documentary photojournalism, 35mm, available light only; editorial tonality, subtle grain, deep red-brown earth tones.
Prompt in ALT
Deep inside the rock-hewn church of Bete Giyorgis in Lalibela, a single elderly pilgrim in white netela shawls kneels in a shaft of dawn light, prayer stick across her knees, while volcanic dust motes drift like slow snow. The cross-shaped trench walls rise around her in russet stone; centuries of hollowed rock press in, and her smallness becomes the entire subject. Style: Documentary photojournalism, 35mm, available light only; editorial tonality, subtle grain, deep red-brown earth tones. Composition: High-angle view down into the cross-shaped trench; pilgrim placed at the intersection of the carved cross; converging stone walls as strong leading lines. Lighting: A single god-ray falling from the trench opening above; a hard shaft of light against cool stone shadow, dust illuminating the beam. Adjectives: sacred, ancient, reverent, hushed, humble.
September 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM
2tout2rien.bsky.social
Bét Giyorgis – l’étonnante église Saint George de Lalibela en Ethiopie

https://2tout2rien.fr/bet-giyorgis-letonnante-eglise-saint-george-de-lalibela-en-ethiopie/

#betgiyorgis #canyon #eglise #ethiopie #falaise
Bét Giyorgis – l’étonnante église Saint George de Lalibela en Ethiopie
À Lalibela, dans les hauts plateaux du nord de l’Éthiopie, Bét Giyorgis — également transcrit Bet Giyorgis, Bete Giyorgis ou Biete Ghiorgis — ne ressemble pas à une église que l’on aurait construit…
2tout2rien.fr
August 28, 2026 at 8:35 PM
vanessadesclaux.bsky.social
Rdv Mardi 19 mai, à 18:15, avec un manuscrit éthiopien contenant une vie en images d’un aventurier grec en Éthiopie à la fin du 19e siècle, avec Anaïs Wion historienne et Dido Lykoudis actrice qui récolte la mémoire des Grecs d’Ethiopie
mondebnf.hypotheses.org/7938
Conférence : La vie du balambaras Giyorgis, un aventurier grec en Éthiopie à la fin du XIXᵉ siècle
Dans le cadre du cycle « Trésors de Richelieu », cette séance présente un étonnant récit iconographique de la vie de Giyorgis, mercenaire, médecin et antiquaire grec au service des souverains éthiopie...
mondebnf.hypotheses.org
May 16, 2026 at 6:49 PM
rhaplord.bsky.social
Land sales, landholdings, and other forms of property were valued in gold.

A document from the reign of Takla Giyorgis I (1786-1800) reports that one Wayzaro Trengo, a woman of high birth, sold a third of her property for over 70 ounces of gold
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-gold-c...
The Gold Currency, Trade and Wealth of Medieval Ethiopia
Gold was one of the oldest metals worked by ancient African societies.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
August 30, 2026 at 6:44 PM
visithmml.bsky.social
A new guide is available for HMML's photographic collections of #Ethiopian manuscripts, including repository and access information.

View the guide: https://bit.ly/4x5MHAD

Learn about HMML's partnerships in Ethiopia: https://bit.ly/4zMYg29

Image credits: see alt text.
A 13th-century Gospel manuscript, in the collection of Ḥayq Esṭifānos Monastery, Wallo Province, Ethiopia. View in Reading Room (EMML 1832): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/203663 A 19th-century "Life of Takla Alfā," in the collection of Dimā Giyorgis Monastery, Goğğām Province, Ethiopia. View in Reading Room (EMDA 00322): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/533826 Three crosses in a 19th-century scroll of spiritual healing, in the collection of Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota. View in Reading Room (LSEM 00005): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/519067 (4): A 17th-century commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's grammar "al-Kāfiyah," in the collection of Sherif Harar City Museum, Harar, Ethiopia. View in Reading Room (EMIP 01735): www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/527463
September 25, 2026 at 12:35 PM
fl-bsky.bsky.social
Famous Bet Giyorgis, entirely cut from a solid rock—15m deep! #RockHewnChurch #Lalibela #Ethiopia
November 17, 2024 at 11:52 AM
realscientists.de
Aus den Quellen wissen wir: Sie importierten Ikonen aus dem östlichen Mittelmeerraum (Kreta!), aus Flandern, vielleicht sogar aus dem "deutschen" Raum.

Und: das besagte bemalte Emailtriptychen aus Limoges in Frankreich, welches Ehemann und Sohn der Königin darstellt.
PPT-Slide. Die zwei Könige von oben, daneben „aṣe Na'od and aṣe Bäbanä Dengel“ በባነ instead of ልብነ -> Bä-ba-nä instead of Lǝ-b-nä Darunter ein Quellausschnitt: "“The wife of ase Naʿod … had a portrait of the image of her son Ləbnä Dəngəl made by the Färänǧ on ፉንጋላ (fungalla) and ፍንጃል (fənǧal). She put it in Dima Giyorgis. And the clergies of Dima show it with great respect to the kings who come to visit.” Yä-Goggam tewled 2010, Chapter XVI, pp. 35-36." Ein Triptychon, wahrscheinlich aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum um 1500, die mittlere Tafel zeigt Maria und Jesus und die drei Könige, einer der Könige ist mit schwarzer Haut gezeichnet — und direkt nah an Jesus und Maria gemalt. Daneben ein Quellzitat: “…. until now there are [located in Däbrä Sǝmmuna] three different pictures of three tablets made by the färänǧ, before which she [queen Säblä Wängel] used to pray, and a big book, the Acts of the Martyrs, which she used to read.” (Yä-Goggam tewled 2010, Chapter XVI; Girma Getahun 2010, 37).
May 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
onthisday.bsky.social
#OTD (Jul 20) in the year 1799: Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia. #OTDIH #history 🗃️ #c18th
Tekle Giyorgis I
Tekle Giyorgis I, throne name Feqr Sagad, was Emperor of Ethiopia intermittently between 20 July 1779 and June 1800, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the youngest son of Yohannes II and Woizoro Sancheviyer, and the brother of Tekle Haymanot II.
en.wikipedia.org
July 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
rhaplord.bsky.social
Historical antecedents for megalithic construction of northern Ethiopia can be found in the archaeological sites of Mahal Teglinos (Kassala, Sudan) and Beta Giyorgis (Tigray, Ethiopia). between the 2nd-1st millenium BC
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/megalithic...
Megalithic Landscapes of Ethiopia from Prehistory to the Modern Era
Ethiopia is home to one of the largest concentrations of megalithic architecture globally.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:01 PM
ousaokello.bsky.social
On or about the 20th of July, 1799, Tekle Giyorgis I began his first reign as Emperor of Ethiopia, one of six non-consecutive reigns during a turbulent period in Ethiopian monarchy
July 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
rhaplord.bsky.social
The popular Ethiopian cereal Eragrostis tef was domesticated in the Ethiopian highlands.
Its earliest known remains date to the early 1st millennium BC, including the Ancient Ona sites, as well as the pre-Aksumite sites of Beta Giyorgis and Kidane Mehret
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-invent...
The invention of Agriculture in Africa: plant domestication and the spread of African crops to Asia and the Americas.
The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture and herding was among the most profound economic changes that occurred in human history.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
mvanderloo.bsky.social
Keizer Iyasu I (r. 1682-1706) voegde zijn eigen paleis aan het complex toe. De bouwwerken uit de tijd van Iyasu en Yohannes stonden onder de leiding van de Ethiopische architect Walda Giyorgis. Lokale Joodse arbeiders waren verantwoordelijk voor de bouw.
Het paleis van keizer Iyasu I
October 18, 2024 at 1:01 PM
rhaplord.bsky.social
The domestic and elite architecture of the early 1st millennium BC formed the prototype of the construction styles used in the Aksumite period. This process was gradual, beginning around 400 BC with the ‘proto-Aksumite’ capital at Bieta Giyorgis
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-histor...
The historic architecture of Ethiopia and Eritrea: a complete overview
The modern countries of Ethiopia and Eritrea are home to some of the best-known historic architectural monuments in Africa.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
alphaisandromeda.bsky.social
"Mentewab had been Empress of Ethiopia, consort of Emperor Bakaffa, mother of Iyasu II and grandmother of Iyoas I.

She is also recognized officially by her baptismal name of Walatta Giyorgis.
September 15, 2026 at 4:01 AM