About this work
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 | 4. One man riding a camel to the monastery | 5. The other man bringing his sheep's wool to the monastery | 6. The camel brought by the man
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The three Arabs swimming in the waterPosition recorded by PEMM: center
The Arabs when the sea wanted to drown them
- 022. One man being eaten by a crocodilePosition recorded by PEMM: center-left
How the crocodile swallowed him
- 033. The two others standing on a rock above the waterPosition recorded by PEMM: left-center
- 044. One man riding a camel to the monasteryPosition recorded by PEMM: top-center
One Arab who brought a camel for the needs of the monastery
- 055. The other man bringing his sheep's wool to the monasteryPosition recorded by PEMM: center
A second Arab who gave sheep's wool to the monastery
- 066. The camel brought by the manPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
And also the camel that he gave to the monastery
- Source date
- 17th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
- Holding institution
- British Library
- Shelfmark
- 639
- Folio
- 82r
- Recorded provenance
- South: Looted from Madḫāne ʿĀlam Church at መቅደላ Mäqdäla Magdala, Tewodros II collected manuscripts from all the country, so provenance prior to this unknown
- Place evidence
- Place recorded or purchased, as stated by the source. It is not treated as the place of production.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1774 (6 episode rows)