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Identifier: gri_000033125009344702 (find matches)
Title: Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Laborde, Léon, marquis de, 1807-1869 Murray, John, 1778-1843, publisher Spottiswoode, Andrew, printer Day & Haghe, lithographer
Subjects: Fouilles (Archéologie)
Publisher: London : John Murray, Albemarle Street
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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and dazzled by the celestial light. At the top of
the vault two medallions contain portraits of the
founders of the convent, the Emperor Justinian, and
Theodora his consort. The ancient medals and
mosaics always represent the Emperor Justinian
without a beard ; my copy, therefore, is not, per-
haps, exact in this respect. Round the arch are
seen the names, in Greek, of several saints mixed
with those of the functionaries of the monastery at
the time when the mosaic was executed.
At the bottom of the niche there is an inscrip-
tion in Greek, of which the following is a trans-

GRAND MOSAIC. 537

lation : — In the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost, the whole of this work
was executed for the salvation of those who have
contributed to it by their donations, under Longinus,
the most holy priest and prior. Beneath this in-
scription there are bust portraits, with these legends,
— Daniel, Jeremy, Malachy, Haggai, Habbacuc,
Joel, Amos, David, Hosea, Micah, Abdias, Nahum,
Σοφονίας, Zechariah, Isaias, and Ezekiel.

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EL BOURG.

CHAPTER XIV.

WINDOW OF ST. CATHARINE'S. — VISIT TO MOUNT SINAI. —
ROAD OF THE PILGRIMS. — SUMMIT OF THE MOUNTAIN. —
THE STONE OF MOSES. — DJEBEL SERBAL. — HERD OF
GAZELLES. — GAZELLE SHOOTING. — WADY MOKATTEB. —
INSCRIPTIONS OF MOKATTEB. — INSCRIPTIONS. — UNIN-
TELLIGIBLE CHARACTERS. — DESIGNS. VIEW OF WADY
MOKATTEB. — WADY MAGARA. — HIEROGLYPHICS. — MARA
OF SCRIPTURE. — ATTACK ON A CARAVAN. — LOWER EGYPT,
— MEHEMET ALL. — TOHRAT KINDNESS.

In order to complete my pilgrimage, it was
necessary that I should ascend Mount Sinai.
None of the monks were disposed to accompany
me; they lent me therefore one of their Arabian
servants, a sort of Helots among the Bedouins, to .

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