God Presents Eve to Adam

12th-13th century
Mosaic
Cathedral of the Assumption, Monreale, Sicily

The inscription quotes Genesis 2:22b-23a: addu[x]it dominus mulierem ad adam dixitque adam hoc nunc os ex ossibus meis et caro de carne mea, "…and the Lord brought her unto Adam. And Adam said, ‘This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.’"

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Photographed at the cathedral by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.