Print of steel engraving titled „Puits Zemzem.“.

Drawn by unknown.

Engraved by unknown.

From „Arabie, par M. Noel Desvergers, vice-president de la societe de geographie, Avec une carte de L‘arabie et note sur cette carte, par M. Jomard, membre de l‘institut. Paris, Firmin didot freres, editeurs, imprimeurs de l‘institut de France, 1847.

The Well of Zamzam is a well located within the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 20 m (66 ft) east of the Kaaba, the holiest place in Islam. According to Islamic belief, it is a miraculously-generated source of water from God, which began thousands of years ago when Abraham's infant son Ishmael was thirsty and kept crying for water. Millions of pilgrims visit the well each year while performing the Hajj or Umrah pilgrimages, in order to drink its water.

Approx. image size 12,3 x 20,4/9, 1 x 13, 5 cm.Condition: good.

Condition: good.