Inhabitants of Mount Sinai . Egypt . 1847 .

Item Details Description Print of steel engraving titled „Habitans du Mont Sinai.“. Drawn by Vernier. Engraved by Lebar. From „Arabie, par M. Noel Desvergers, vice-president de la societe de geographie, Avec une carte de L‘arabie et note sur cette carte, par M. Jomard, membre de l‘institut. Paris, Firmin didot freres, editeurs, imprimeurs de l‘institut de France, 1847. Mount Sinai, also known as Mount Horeb, is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt that is a possible location of the biblical Mount Sinai. The latter is mentioned many times in the Book of Exodus and other books of the Bible, and the Quran. According to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition, the biblical Mount Sinai was the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Approx. image size 12,3 x 20,4/8,9 x 13,8 cm.Condition: good.