Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis . t. At the top ofthe vault two medallions contain portraits of thefounders of the convent, the Emperor Justinian, andTheodora his consort. The ancient medals andmosaics always represent the Emperor Justinianwithout a beard ; my copy, therefore, is not, per-haps, exact in this respect. Round the arch areseen the names, in Greek, of several saints mixedwith those of the functionaries of the monastery atthe time when the mosaic was executed. At the bottom of the niche there is an inscrip-ti
Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis . t. At the top ofthe vault two medallions contain portraits of thefounders of the convent, the Emperor Justinian, andTheodora his consort. The ancient medals andmosaics always represent the Emperor Justinianwithout a beard ; my copy, therefore, is not, per-haps, exact in this respect. Round the arch areseen the names, in Greek, of several saints mixedwith those of the functionaries of the monastery atthe 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 theSon, and of the Holy Ghost, the whole of this workwas executed for the salvation of those who havecontributed 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,XoQovlac, Zechariah, Isaias, and Ezekiel. 238. i:i. Borno. CHAPTER XIV. WINDOW OF ST. CATHARINE S. VISIT TO MOUNT SINAI. KOAD 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 wasnecessary that I should ascend Mount of the monks were disposed to accompanyme; they lent me therefore one of their Arabianservants, a sort of Helots among the Bedouins, to .
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