tabot

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Every Ethiopian Orthodox Church has a replica of the Ark, called the tabot, but only members of the clergy are allowed to see it.

Gadling Sean McLachlan 2010
Taken by a British soldier in 1868 from the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II at Maqdala, Ethiopia, the tabot was recently returned to the country.

Render Unto Ethiopia... 2002
In late January, a carved wooden representation of the Ark of the Covenant or tabot from the Maqdala treasure was officially returned to Ethiopia.

Many Happy Returns? 2002
The tabot, found when a cupboard at St. John's Church, Edinburgh, was being cleaned out, was sent back by the church.

Many Happy Returns? 2002
Behind them, home by two priests in the most sumptuous robes and tall, jewel-encrusted head-dresses, came the tabot.

The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
On the fifth day the abbot takes the tabot down to the Abbay.

The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
"Why did they send you to touch the stone and not the tabot itself?"

The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
"Tell me about the tabot," she suggested, but Nicholas forestalled her.

The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
Nicholas broke the tension that gripped them by turning away from the tabot stone to the barred gate in the back wall of the sanctuary.

The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
Nogo ran to join him, brushing past the damaskcovered tabot stone.

The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995