Dr Jacopo Gnisci, UCL History of Art, privately restitutes Ethiopian sacred tablet

26 September 2023

Dr Jacopo Gnisci has privately restituted a sacred tablet (tabot), symbolically representing the Ark of the Covenant for the Ethiopian Church, looted by the British at the battle of Maqdala 155 years ago.

Maqdala map - a drawing of map by Edward Weller in the mid to late 1800s

Read about Dr Gnisci's restitution of the sacred tablet

Sacred Ethiopian tablet looted by the British at the battle of Maqdala 155 years ago is returned in London church service (theartnewspaper.com)

A piece of a 19th-century Ethiopian prince is going home | CBC News

Art expert gives back Ethiopian tabot he found being sold in auction (telegraph.co.uk)

Sacred religious artefact returned to Ethiopia after being saved from sale | Evening Standard