(MAP OF HOLY LAND).

Jacob van Muers

(Amsterdam

1677)

Dapper, Olfert. Peregrinatie ofte Veertich Iarige Reyse der Kinderen Israels, uyt Egypten door de Roode Zee ende de Woestyne, tot in’t Beloofde Landt Canaan…Door Jacob van Muers. Terra Sancta quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis olim Palestina [The forty years’ wanderings of the Children of Israel from Egypt through the Red Sea and the Desert into the Promised Land of Canaan]

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From: Dapper, Olfert. Naukurige beschrijving van gantsch Syria en Paletyn (Amsterdam: Jacob van Muers, 1677), pt. II, pp. 26-27 The cartouche in the upper right hand corner is accompanied by four cherubs. Immediately below, one notes the maritime traffic between King Hiram’s Lebanon and King Solomon’s port of Joppa (Jaffa). By the same token, in the lower left, Solomon’s fleet departs the Red Sea port of Etsion Geber/Elath for the legendary Land of Ophir, famed for its gold. (See I Kings, chaps. 5 and 9.) The map orients to the west, and provides the portions of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. At bottom, there are scenes of the Israelites’ sojourn in the desert: In the center, the Revelation at Mount Sinai; to the left, Moses striking the rock with his staff to produce water; to the right, the bronze serpent that healed those stricken by snakebite