Photographs © Bobbi Hamill
ETHIOPIAN
SCROLL 9
63" long x 4" wide
$600
The scroll consists of three panels laced together with three pictures in color.
Although age is impossible to establish definitively, we believe this scroll dates from the 19th or early 20th century.
Ethiopia has been a Christian nation since the 4th century. These Coptic gospel texts are handwritten and illustrated on vellum, a fine parchment made from calfskin, lambskin, or kidskin. Although age is impossible to establish definitively, we believe they date from the 19th or early 20th century.
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