Journey to Mount Sinai. The path to the summit of Mount Sinai leads through a gorge in the southwest. One of the Monks of the Convent stationed himself there in prayer.
Ascent to the summit of Mount Sinai.
Tag: David Roberts
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, by David Roberts. London: Published by Day & Son. Cate Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1855.
Ascent of the lower range of Mount Sinai, 1839.
This Sketch gives a portion of the Israelite march to Sinai. The foot of the Pass before us, called by the Arabs Nukb Hâwy (Windy Pass).
The Christian and Mohammedan Chapels on Mount Sinai, 1839.
Those Chapels are placed on what is traditionally regarded as the summit of Sinai.
Chapel of the convent of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.
The interior of the Chapel of St. Catherine is probably the oldest and the richest of all the Eastern churches
The Rock of Moses in Wady-El-Leja valley, west of Mount Sinai.
The “Rock of Moses” is, from its size, a remarkable object: it rests isolated where it has fallen from the eastern Mountain above
Encampment of the Aulad-Said, Mount Sinai
This scene represents the arrival of the caravan of the Artist and his companions, in the country, and at the tents of the Aulad-Sa’id.
The convent of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai, Egypt.
This Convent has been built in the form of a square fortress of hewn granite, and flanked with towers, of which one or two have cannon.
Ruins of the Church of St. John Sebaste, ancient Samaria.
The ruins of the Church of Saint John the Baptist in the ancient city of Samaria, not far from the modern city of Nablus.
Nablous, the ancient Shechem, one of the oldest cities in Palestine.
View of one of the oldest and most interesting Canaanite cities in Palestine. Nablous contains some fine fragments of its former grandeur.
Entrance to Nablus, once the capital of Samaria.
The Shechem of the Old Testament, and Sychar of the New, once the capital of Samaria, was a city of very high antiquity, and eminent renown.