Pankhurst, Alula;
Gnisci, Jacopo;
(2025)
The Return of a Looted Processional Cross from Magdala.
Rassegna di studi Etiopici
, 8
(3a)
pp. 199-210.
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Abstract
This contribution looks at the history of an eighteenth-century Ethiopian processional cross that was taken by a British soldier, Captain Arbuthnot, during the siege of Magdala. In addition to an English inscription that celebrates the circumstances during which it was plundered, the cross is also decorated with representations of the Crucifixion and the Archangel Michael identified by inscriptions in Ethiopic. The cross eventually came to be in the possession of the late Emmanuel Abraham, who worked in the Ethiopian Embassy in London between the 1930s and 1950s, and was given to the Ethiopian Heritage Authority by his daughter Ruth Abraham in 2023.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Return of a Looted Processional Cross from Magdala |
| Publisher version: | https://www.ipocan.it/index.php/it/rassegna-di-stu... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Processional Cross, Magdala, Restitution, Crucifixion, St Michael |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History of Art |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201728 |
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