Mt. Sinai (Georgian MSS), illuminated manuscript

Mt. Sinai Peninsula. Illumination from a late medieval Georgian manuscript (Tbilisi, Georgian National Center of Manuscripts, Psalter H-182, f. 227). The Monastery of St. Catherine is shown in the upper left. Bedouin tents sit between the mountains and the Gulf of Suez. The city of Cairo, on the bank of the river Nile, is seen in the foreground.