Travellers Saved from Crocodiles
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Travellers Saved from Crocodiles
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1700-1799. You can view this painting in the manuscript Brown University, Ethiopic Collection, Manuscript No. 14, f. 40v, s. 97, 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 5 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. The men in a boat (top-left). The object(s) are boat; felucca; water.
- 2. One man being eaten by a crocodile (top-right). The object(s) are boat; felucca; water; crocodile.
- 3. One man riding a camel to the monastery (bottom). The object(s) are saddle; camel.
- 4. The other man bringing his sheep's wool to the monastery (bottom). The object(s) are monastery; building. The living being(s) are priest; monk.
- 5. The camel brought by the man (bottom-left). The object(s) are camel; tree.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How the crocodile swallowed the one who did not believe and how those who beleved traveled the sea on a boat and how they gave a riding camel for the needs of the monastery.
- 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 1751.
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