What: Steel cross
Where: The National Museums of Scotland
Sources:
The museums’ online catalogue entry has one image
National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.1893.210
Description: Steel cross, Greek form, with four equal ornate arms and flat square tablet at end of stem ornamented with incised circles and points: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, obtained at the Storming of Magdala, 1868
Acquisition source: Mackenzie, William Sir K. C.B., C.S.I., 1811 – 1893
Posted In Crosses | Sacred artefacts | The Plunder
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