Francis Frith - Mount Horeb, Sinai Frith

Rocky landscape with men and camels and Mount Sinai in the background.
Photograph taken from the southeastern end of EL Raha Plain (Biblical encampment of the Israelites), looking southeast and showing Wadi Sharig and the pointed summit of Ras El Sefsafa (Monacha, Biblical Mount Horeb) to the right, Naqb Sho'eib (Siqqat Sho'eib) to the left side of the mountain, the summit Gebel Armaziya to the Naqb's left, Wadi El Dier (Biblical Holy Valley), Saint Catherine Monastery (dark area in the mainstream of the valley) and Gebel Muneiga (hill of Jethro) in centre-left from a 4.2km distance, and the slope with boulders of Gebel Sana' to the left. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Middle Paleolithic (>17,000 BCE) and Pre-Pottery Neolithic (B) (6,700-6,000 BCE) sites are located at the southern end of El Raha Plain. El Raha Plain is recognized as the traditional location where the Israelites encamped at the foot of Biblical Mount Horeb. Saint Catherine Monastery was constructed in 545 CE by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527-565 CE). Mountain chapels and Byzantine monastic structures are scattered across the valley, including ruined buildings, hermit cells, prayer niches and rock inscriptions (4th-7th centuries CE). (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Signed and numbered (No. 185) on glass plate.
Published in: Sinai and Palestine / Francis Frith. London : William Mackenzie, [1862?, frontispiece].