An 18th-century manuscript of the Scroll of Abatur in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The illustration on top depicts the ship Shahrat ferrying Mandaean souls towards the house of Abatur, while the lower illustration shows the tree of Shatrin with the souls of unbaptized children.
Hibil Ziwa baptizes the souls of the children, who then continue on to the World of Light. The tree has a length of 360,000 parasangs according to the Scroll of Abatur.[2]
MS. Borgiani Siriaci 175 (held at the
Drower Collection MS. 8 (held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford), two different manuscripts of the Scroll of Abatur, have illustrations of Shatrin that differ from those of each other.[3]
