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1 photograph ; photomechanical print. No known restrictions on publication. Plate 91 in portfolio: Bilder aus Palästina. Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin : Dietrich Riemer, 1916. Photograph taken from the central area of Wadi El Dier (Biblical Holy Valley), looking southeast and showing the mountain slopes of Gebel Armaziya and Siqqat Armaziya to the right, Siqqat Sydina Musa (to Armaziya's left) along the Byzantine monastic and pilgrimage naqb to the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai) in centre-right, the orchard and fortress of Saint Catherine Monastery in the valley, the vicinity of Siqqat Abbas Basha to the summit of Mount Sinai and the pilgrimage caravan route to El Tur (Byzantine Raitho, on the Gulf of Suez) in the centre, the camel path to the monastery and the pyramid-shape Gebel Muneiga in centre-left from a 1.7km distance, and the boulders on the mountain slopes of Gebel El Dier (Selib-Baraka) and Gebel Meraja to the left. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018) Mountain chapels and Byzantine monastic structures are scattered across the valley and on the plateau of Biblical Mount Horeb and Mount Sinai, including ruined buildings (dwellings), hermit cells, prayer niches, rock-paved paths, rock inscriptions and agricultural plots (water dams, reservoirs & cisterns, conduits and retaining walls) (4th-7th centuries CE). Saint Catherine Monastery was constructed in 545 CE by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527-565 CE). Several ancient monastic and pilgrimage routes lead to the plateau from the monastery, including Naqb Armaziya, Siqqat Sydina Musa and Siqqat Abbas Basha. The chapel of Jethro (Theodores: Tyre and Recurit) was constructed on the summit of Gebel Muneiga in 19th century CE. Abbas Helmi I, the Khedive of Egypt (1849-54), visited Sinai Peninsula in 1853-54 CE and paved several paths in the vicinity of Mount Sinai and along the pilgrimage routes in the peninsula. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018) Title from item. Translated title by Library staff. Letterpress caption in German. Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) 1910-1920 Monasteries Egypt Sinai 1910-1920 LOT 3704, no. 91 [item] Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.38184 2014648785 LC-DIG-ppmsca-38184 DLC hdl:loc.pnp/ppmsca.38184 aacr dcrmg DLC 140925 20250607061933.0 18315535 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)