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...proved to be even better bargains than contemporary pictures by little-known artists. Sample rates: a bronze reindeer from ancient Persia for $632.50, a 5,000-year-old "female divinity" from Sumer for $103.50, an ancient Egyptian bronze statuette of Anubis for $172.50, a Tarascan warrior for $200, a Coptic bone statuette for $28.75, Etruscan earrings for $189.75, and two highly stylized Spanish and Greek bronzes for $200 (left} and $402.50 (right...
Born. To Crown Prince Asfa Wassan of Ethiopia, 37, and Crown Princess Medferiash Worq Abbebe, 30: their third child, first son, Emperor Haile Selassie's twelfth grandchild, second in line of succession to the throne. Name: to be announced, according to Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox custom, 40 days after birth. Weight...
Among Toledo's more out-of-the-way exhibits were an illustrated treatise on music by the 6th century Roman Boethius (better known for his Consolations of Philosophy), and an early Coptic manuscript which appears to indicate a tune by different colored notes rather than by their positioning. But most of the 103 items on view are leaves from Roman Catholic choir books, illuminated over long years of cloistered devotion by medieval and renaissance monks. They echo Byzantine mosaics and foreshadow modern art. The monks' forte was to make flat, ingenious patterns of a few brilliant colors;school...
...battalion of Ethiopian troops-1,153 officers and men-left Addis Ababa last week for combat service with the U.N. allies in Korea. Well trained in street and guerrilla fighting and hardened to mountain war, the Ethiopians, all volunteers, were equipped with British rifles and battle clothing. The Coptic Christian Church gave them permission to eat non-orthodox food (i.e., U.S. rations), and sent along a chaplain. From Addis Ababa they went to Djibouti in French Somaliland, boarded a U.S. ship there. It was reported last week that they may bypass Japan, go directly to Pusan...
...Emperor Constantine. Destroyed and rebuilt several times since then, the present church is a cramped, badly maintained building that has disappointed many a pious tourist. Crowded into its dingy interior, the shrines, chapels and stalls of six branches of Christianity (Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic and Abyssinian) constantly interfere with each other's services and worshipers. Under Msgr. Gustav Testa, Apostolic Delegate in the Holy Land, the Roman Catholics have been working since 1939 on these plans for a basilica with beauty and elbow room...