#maqdala — Public Fediverse posts

The first paper I turned to - "Repatriation from Scottish Museums: A Short Report" by @aberdeenuni's Neil Curtis and @hunteriandir Steph Scholten - stirred memories of past defeats https://www.ejournals.eu/SAACLR/2022/2-2022/art/23356/ @EdUniLibraries #AFROMET #magdala #maqdala #ethiopia

🧵6/6 And one issue for Ethiopia. Greece pretty much won the argument when it built the @acropolismuseum. Is it time for a Maqdala museum in Addis, in Gondar or on top of Maqdala itself? Perhaps next to a memorial to Alemayehu. #Ethiopia #maqdala #magdala @alulapan @lemnsissay

On an unrelated note - Ethiopian manuscripts plundered from Maqdala in the Royal Collection: https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/39/collection/1005081/discourses-of-the-archangels-michael-gabriel-and-raphael-rufael-geez; https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/38/collection/1005080/discourse-of-john-chrysostom-in-praise-of-john-the-baptist-geez; https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/31/collection/1005083/miracles-of-the-virgin-mary-geez; https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/30/collection/1005079/the-miracles-of-our-lord-jesus-geez; https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/15/collection/1005084/the-four-gospels-geez and https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/14/collection/1005082/nagara-maryam-geez #ethiopia #maqdala #magdala

The @ExploreWellcome collection also has this image of Ethiopia's King of Kings Tewodros II after he killed himself as the British/Indian troops moved in. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/wjecckea/images?id=dkzy9u3g [See full credit in Alt Text] #ethiopia #tewodros #maqdala #magdala

Loot of the day: More Mary. More Maqdala. As it says on the cover: "WEDDÁSÉ MÁRYÁM - Part of an Ethiopic Manuscript Taken At Magdala, Abyssinia, 1868. Lieut. E.H.H. Collen R.A." Now in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin #ethiopia #maqdala #magdala #loot https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/object/W_916/1/LOG_0000/

Enjoying Nadia Nurhussein's Black Land https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190969/black-land and its focus on Alemayehu. "He is a romantic and spectacular figure, displaced in unending exile, steeped in nostalgia and obsolescence, but also an example of successful assimilation of the exotic." @PrincetonUPress #ethiopia #alemayehu #alamayu #loot #plunder #maqdala #magdala #empire #britishempire

Loot of the day: Lieutenant Borrett took "two Abyssinian swords...a ring I cut off a dead enemy, part of a native bible and a bullet that fell at my feet during the fight" during the British "expedition" to Ethiopia in 1868. Here's the ring in Lancaster http://kingsownmuseum.com/mus03campaigns1868.htm #ethiopia #loot #plunder #empire #britishempire #repatriation #abyssinia #maqdala #magdala #africa #alamayu #alemayehu #lancaster #army #britisharmy #military