Coptic Church Treasures
treasury door
leather bags in which the manuscripts are stored
cross and a manuscript on display
Sistra in the basket
flask
the parasols used in Coptic processions
stone fragment with Sabaean language inscription
The people who called themselves Saba' (biblical Sheba) are both the earliest and the most abundantly attested in the surviving written records. Their centre was at Ma'rib, east of present-day San'ā', Yemen and on the edge of the sand desert. (In the indigenous inscriptions Ma'rib is rendered Mryb or Mrb; the modern spelling is based on an unjustified “correction” by medieval Arabic writers.)
