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Ethiopian Kitabe Leather Amulet
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1801 - 1960 (Creation)
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Height: 4.4 cm
Width: 3.4 cm
Depth: 2 cm
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Robert N. Thompson acquired the leather carrying case during his time in Ethiopia from the 1940s into the 1950s. In 1983, Thompson donated textual material to TWU Archives and over the course of the next decade additional materials including the Ethiopian codices were transferred to the care of the Archives.
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Object is one cylinder shaped red leather amulet case with wooden block inside that is half covered in black leather. The leather has been imprinted with three feathers each feather measuring 1.5 cm in length. The case has leather stitching where the amulet would be fastened to a chain for wearing around the neck. The kitabe was worn by an individual and contained religious texts, in particular texts written in Ge'ez, a liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
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Good condition.
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Robert N. Thompson
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Object given identifier code "RNT-ob" to show that it is associated with other objects from the Robert N. Thompson fonds.
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Preferred Citation: Trinity Western Archives and Special Collections. Ethiopian Manuscripts Collection, Coll. 12-RNT-ob-0003, Ethiopian Kitabe Leather Amulet, 1801-1960.
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July 2020, tk