Noah Leaves the Ark
12th century
Mosaic
Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily
On the left a raven pecks at the body of a flood victim, now revealed by the receding waters. In the center Noah puts the animals out of the ark. His sons and wife are seen in the four arched windows. On the right God sets a rainbow in the sky in token of peace with mankind.
The first line of the inscription says hic egr[e]ditur noe de archa, "Here Noah goes out of the ark."
The second line garbles Genesis 8:17, Cuncta animantia…educ tecum, "Take all the living things…out with you."
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Photographed at the site by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.