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Wall Painting with Saint Sosənna (Susanna) and Her Persecutors
Ethiopian (Gondar, Ethiopia)
second half 17th century

Täʾammərä Maryam (Miracles of Mary)
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
late 17th century

Amhara or Tigrinya peoples

19th century

Anonymous Coin (AR.2 Gilt Type)
Ethiopian (Aksum, Ethiopia)
mid-4th–mid-6th century

Triptych
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
late 16th–early 17th century

Wall Painting with a Priest of Heaven
Ethiopian (Gondar, Ethiopia)
second half 17th century

Diptych Icon with St. George and the Virgin Eleousa
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
ca 1500, and possibly Crete, ca 1480–90

Ethiopic Prayer Book
Ethiopian (Gondar, Ethiopia)
17th century

Selecha
Elias Sime
2008

Healing Scroll
Amhara or Tigrinya peoples
19th century

Gospel manuscript with separated leaves
Ethiopian (Northern Highlands, Tigray, Ethiopia)
1510-1530

Prayer book with case (mahdar)
Wäldä Maryam
19th century

Pendant Icon: St. George, Virgin and Child Enthroned
Ethiopian
18th century

Single Leaf from a Gospel Book with a Portrait of St Luke
Ethiopian Orthodox (Ethiopia)
ca. 1440–1480

The Saint Matthew Capital
1170s

Amhara or Tigrinya peoples

19th century

Panel Painting with the Crowned Nursing Virgin and the Twelve Apostles
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
second half 15th century

Selecha
Elias Sime
2008

Processional Cross
Ezra
ca. 1500

Processional Cross
Tigrinya peoples
12th–13th century

Processional Cross
Central or Northern Highlands region
15th century

Coin - Armah AE.1 Type
Ethiopian (Aksum, Ethiopia)
530s–50s

Ethiopian

19th century

Cross
Ethiopian
14th century

Amhara or Tigrinya peoples

19th century

The Cross, the Church, and the Butterfly

Skunder Boghossian

1980s

Wall Painting with Saint Filatäwos (Philotheos of Antioch)
Ethiopian (Gondar, Ethiopia)
second half 17th century

Double Diptych Icon Pendant
Amhara or Tigrinya peoples
early 18th century

Processional Cross
Ethiopia, Lasta region
early 15th century

The Story of the Queen of Sheba
Amhara peoples
20th century

Triptych with the Virgin and Child, the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, Saints, and Scenes from the Life of Christ
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
late 17th century

Coin of Nezool (AV.1 Type)
Ethiopian (Aksum, Ethiopia)
late 5th century

Wall Painting of the Virgin and Child with Donors

Possibly Lake Tana region

ca. 1800

Coin of Endybis (AV.1 Type)
Ethiopian (Aksum, Ethiopia)
295–310

Processional Cross (qäqwami mäsqäl)
Amhara or Tigrinya peoples
15th–16th century

Mäṣḥafä Bərhan (Book of Light)
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
ca. 1450–1468

Ceremonial Whisk (čera or chira)
Ethiopian
19th–20th century

Wall Painting with Abba Ǝnṭonyos (Saint Anthony) Receiving the Cap and Scapular
Ethiopian (Gondar, Ethiopia)
second half 17th century

Diptych with the Kiss of St. John
Ethiopian (Ethiopia)
15th century

Processional Cross
Northern Highlands region artist
14th–15th century