Print of steel engraving titled „Edom“.

Drawn by C. Stanfield R. A. from a sketch by Count de Laborde.

Engraved by E. Finden.

Edom was a Semite-inhabited historical region of the Southern Levant located south of Judea and the Dead Sea mostly in the Negev. It is mentioned in biblical records as a 1st millennium BC Iron Age kingdom of Edom, and in classical antiquity the cognate name Idumea was used to refer to a smaller area in the same region.The Hebrew word Edom means "red", and the name was later given to Esau, the elder son of the Hebrew patriarch Isaac, because he was born "red all over". Later, as a young adult, he ate "red pottage", a term the writer used in irony, reinforcing Esau's second name. The Tanakh and the New Testament both describe the Edomites as descendants of Esau.

Approx. image size 13, 5 x 10, 2/21, 4 x 13, 7 cm.

Condition: good.