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Title from negative sleeve.
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service.
Photograph taken from Wadi Sulaf and close to the vicinity of Abu Khalil area, looking west and showing the vicinity of Wadi Feiran to the right, the crown-shape summits of Gebel Serbal in the centre in the background, the pointed summit of Gebel Serbal Umm Takha to the left, and the vicinity of Wadi Umm Takha and Wadi Duhisa in-between, from a 8km distance. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Wadi Sulaf section from Gra Umm Ghardi in the east to El Dhesa area in the west is dotted by prehistoric sites and from Early Neolithic (A) (8,300-7,500 BCE) to Early Bronze Age (3150-2950 BCE) and later periods, in addition to Nabatean (1st century CE) and Byzantine monastic sites (4th-7th centuries CE). The northern end of Naqb Hibran at its junction with Wadi Sulaf is known for its prehistoric stone-built burials ôNawamisö, which forms a cluster of three groups with the ones in Wadi Sulaf. The burials date back to the Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age (5th-4th millenniums BCE). Camels replaced feral donkeys in transportation in 2nd millennium BCE, though domesticated donkeys are still used in the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula. Wadi Sulaf was part of the upland section of Darb El Batraa in Sinai Peninsula (Way of Petra or Exdous Traditional Route). Gebel Serbal towers Feiran Oasis (Biblical Rephidim) to the south. The oasis was also known Palm Grove of B'aal and thought to be the true location of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai) in 3rd century CE. Wadi Sulaf had been the way to Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai) and Saint Catherine Monastery for pilgrims, travellers and scholars since 4th century CE. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
On negative sleeve: Mt. Sinai box.
Guide card: Sinai.
Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection is a source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present-day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most of the Library of Congress collection consists of over 23,000 glass and film photographic negatives and transparencies created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor firm, the Matson Photo Service. The American Colony Photo Department in Jerusalem was one of several photo services operating in the Middle East before 1900. Catering primarily to the tourist trade, the American Colony and its competitors photographed holy sites, often including costumed actors recreating Biblical scenes. The firm’s photographers were residents of Palestine with knowledge of the land and people that gave them an advantage and made their coverage intimate and comprehensive. They documented Middle East culture, history, and political events from before World War I through the collapse of Ottoman rule, the British Mandate period, World War II, and the emergence of the State of Israel. The Matson Collection also includes images of people and locations in present-day Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. Additionally, the firm produced photographs from an East African trip. The collection came to the Library of Congress between 1966 and 1981, through a series of gifts made by Eric Matson and his beneficiary, the Home for the Aged of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Los Angeles (now called the Kensington Episcopal Home).