Grottes des Horites

Alternate Title:

Grottoes of the Horites

Description:

1 photograph; b&w

Provenance:

Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection

Physical Description:

25 x 19.7 cm ( 9.875 x 7.75 in).

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

A cavern with water-sculpted arches.; The photograph is in a book with a typed description in French and English. The French description: "A quelques centaines de mètres de Beit-Djibrin se trouvent d'immenses chambres souterraines connues sous le nom de Eurak-el Moïeh, les grottes de l'eau. On les regarde à la suite de saint Jérôme comme étant l'oeuvre des Horites et des Edomites, leurs successeurs, populations essentiellement troglodytes (habitants des cavernes)." The English translation: "A few hundred metres from Beit-Djibrin, are some immense subterranean rooms known by the name of Eurak-el-Moieh, the grottoes of water. Saint Jerome regarded them as the work of the Horites and the Edomites, who succeeded them. Both people were essentially troglodytes (dwellers in caves)." The initials "B+P" are printed at the bottom left of the photograph.; The photograph was not catalogued by Lazard--it was catalogued at LKCAJS.; Condition: Good

Collection:

Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)