A digital painting, using Whistlers Rainbow in DAP, of Siout in Upper Egypt. The original image was obtained from oldbookart.com from the copyright free source: ‘The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia’ by David Roberts 1838.
Formerly Lycopolis – a name derived from the worship of the jackal, one of the mythological menagerie of the ancient Egyptians. There is a tradition, however, which gives great interest to this place in Christian history, as the resting-place of Joseph and Mary when they fled into Egypt, with the infant Saviour, from the persecution of Herod.