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Dr Jacopo Gnisci, ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûHistory of Art, privately restitutes Ethiopian sacred tablet

26 September 2023

Dr Jacopo Gnisci has privately restituted a sacred tablet (tabot), symbolically representing the Ark of the Covenant for the Ethiopian Church, looted by the British at the battle of Maqdala 155 years ago.

Maqdala map - a drawing of map by Edward Weller in the mid to late 1800s