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The three Arabs swimming in the water — EMML (HMML) 7606, fol. 91r

Hill Museum and Manuscript Library · 7606 · 91r

18th centuryManuscript paintingsPrinceton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project

The source records this manuscript art; no substitute image is shown.

Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.

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The three Arabs swimming in the water

Original catalogue wording

1. The three Arabs swimming in the water | 2. One man being eaten by a crocodile | 3. The two others standing on a rock above the water

Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.

Scenes and visual evidence

  1. 01
    1. The three Arabs swimming in the waterPosition recorded by PEMM: left

    Three Arabs whom the sea wanted to drown

  2. 02
    2. One man being eaten by a crocodilePosition recorded by PEMM: center

    How the crocodile swallowed the one of the three Arabs who ridiculed them

  3. 03
    3. The two others standing on a rock above the waterPosition recorded by PEMM: right

    Caption has been trimmed and is incomplete: ...drowning in the sea and they stood on a rock

Source date
1721-1730
Date evidence
The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from king's name”.
Holding institution
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
Shelfmark
7606
Folio
91r
Recorded provenance
not given on vHMML
Place evidence
Provenance wording supplied by the source catalogue.
Catalogue source
Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
Source record
paintings.csv, Painting ID 1469 (3 episode rows)