Noah's Flood: The Dove

12th century
Mosaic
Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily

Noah looks from the front of the ark to see the dove approaching with an olive branch. Behind him are his wife and three sons. The inscription says noe misit columbam et rediit cum ramo olive, "Noah sent out a dove and it came back with a branch of olive."

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