Travellers Saved from Crocodiles
Image displayed with permission of Bibliothèque nationale de France
Travellers Saved from Crocodiles
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript likely made in Gondar, Western Ethiopia, and dated to 1700-1799. You can view this painting in the manuscript Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ethiopien d'Abbadie Collection, Manuscript No. 114, f. 33v, s. 68, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page. You can also read the related story at its PEMM Story page.
- Many Geʿez manuscript paintings are in "Synoptic Narrative Art” style; that is, a single painting depicts multiple moments in the story, providing a series of vignettes representing different plot points. PEMM calls these "episodes". This painting of PEMM Story ID 16 has 3 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. The three Arabs swimming in the water (left). The object(s) are water.
- 2. One man being eaten by a crocodile (center). The object(s) are rock; stone; water.
- 3. The two others standing on a rock above the water (right). The object(s) are rock; stone; water.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: The three Arabs whom the sea wanted to drown.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 37. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 59.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 1472.
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