Mount Sinai, Monastery of Saint Catherine: Walls / Inscriptions: Monastery, northwest wall, slab to left of old (blocked) entrance / Byzantine; creation date: 6th century, restoration date: 1959-1960

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Work Title: Mount Sinai, Monastery of Saint Catherine: Walls
View Title: Inscriptions: Monastery, northwest wall, slab to left of old (blocked) entrance
Creator/Culture: patron: Justinian I, Emperor of Byzantium (Byzantine, ca. 482-565)
Image Creator/Culture: photographer: Fred Anderegg (American, 1908-2001); Architecture photographed: 1958
Site/Repository: Site: Monastery of Saint Catherine (Mount Sinai, Egypt)
Period/Date: Byzantine; creation date: 6th century, restoration date: 1959-1960
Subjects: The Michigan-Princeton-Alexandria Expeditions to Mount Sinai; Forsyth, George H., Jr. (1902-1991); Weitzmann, Kurt (1904-1993); Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai); Sinai (Egypt); Monasteries; Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint; Christianity; World Heritage area (UNESCO); Religious buildings; General religious subjects; Byzantine Empire; Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565; Icons; Egypt
Work Record ID: 579025
Image Record ID: 1390455
Digital filename: 16asinai02317
HART Image Order Number: 310107
Date Added/Updated: 2018-03-22 01:38:33

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Collection: History of Art, VRC Image Bank
Image Size: 3600 x 2315
File Size: 3 MB
Record: 1390455
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hart/x-1390455/16asinai02317

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Full citation: History of Art Department, Visual Resource Collections. Image 1390455. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. URL: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hart/x-1390455/16asinai02317. July 14, 2025.