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The Monastery of St. Sabba, Palestine (portrait)

Stock Code 60455

[c. 1960's]

Original price $660.00 - Original price $660.00
Original price $660.00
$660.00
$660.00 - $660.00
Current price $660.00
Near Jerusalem, between the town and the Dead City one finds, at the end of a Canyon, the Monastery of St. Sabba, built by the Emporer Justinan. The saint is supposed, in the 5th Century to have lived in a cave with a lion in this neighbourhood for many years. Anchorites inhabited similar caves prior to the building of the Monastery. No women are allowed in the Monastery. The Arab population all around is Christian. It is now a Greek Orthodox Monastery. The silver keys to the Monastery. (Description attached to the reverse).

Gelatin silver print 11cm x 11.5cm. Photographer's ink signature on reverse. Printed title and description on paper attached to the reverse.

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The Monastery of St. Sabba, Palestine (portrait)

HOPPE, Emil Otto.

Stock code: 60455

$660.00

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