Christian Processional Cross

18th–19th century

Copper alloy

19 1/2 x 14 x 2 in. (49.5 x 35.56 x 5.08 cm)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund

2010.223.1

Geography:

Country Gondar, Ethiopia

Culture:

Orthodox Tewahedo Church

Classification:

Sculpture

Status:

On view*

Bibliography:

“Acquisitions,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2011.pdf (accessed March 1, 2012).

Frederick John Lamp, “Designs against Evil: An Ethiopian Orthodox Processional Cross,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2012): 112–113, fig. 1A–B.

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