{"id":535,"date":"2009-06-08T06:32:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T11:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2009-06-08T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T11:32:15","slug":"double-stela-beta-gyorgis-quarry-axum-tigray-ethiopia-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/double-stela-beta-gyorgis-quarry-axum-tigray-ethiopia-may-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Stela, Beta Gyorgis Quarry, Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia, May 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Double Stela, Beta Gyorgis Quarry, Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia, May 2009 by larkvi (on a research trip, checking rarely), on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/3606342577\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2422\/3606342577_a7cb168762_o.jpg\" alt=\"Double Stela, Beta Gyorgis Quarry, Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia, May 2009\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The so-called &#8220;double stele,&#8221; which sources have identified as an incomplete two-topped stela. I somewhat wonder if it is not just the incomplete-quarrying that has led to this identification, but it is interesting to see two stelae quarried immediately adjacent to each other, in any case.<\/p>\n<p>The Beta Gyorgis &#8220;House of (St.) George&#8221; Quarry is on the hill above Axum, but was significantly less-important than the Gobedra quarry 5km outside of town. The stela(e) show how the quarrying worked&#8211;grooves were cut out of the rock before being freed. Stelae were apparently unworked when they were translated into Axum, and carved in place&#8211;a sensible way to avoid wasting effort on something that breaks in transit.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t claim any art to this photo&#8211;it was taken in middle off a very sunny day, and it shows!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The so-called &#8220;double stele,&#8221; which sources have identified as an incomplete two-topped stela. I somewhat wonder if it is not just the incomplete-quarrying that has led to this identification, but it is interesting to see two stelae quarried immediately adjacent to each other, in any case. The Beta Gyorgis &#8220;House of (St.) George&#8221; Quarry is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/double-stela-beta-gyorgis-quarry-axum-tigray-ethiopia-may-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Double Stela, Beta Gyorgis Quarry, Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia, May 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,74,77,287,570,577,846,856,909],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-africa","tag-axum","tag-axumite-architecture","tag-ethiopia","tag-monolith","tag-monument","tag-stela","tag-stonework","tag-tigray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}