MALALEEL. - Patriarch mentioned in Gen. 5:12-13, and depicted in one of the medallions of the patriarchal cycle painted on the walls of the central nave of the basilica of St. Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome (1123-44). He appears youthful; beneath the legend reads: «Malalehel vixit octingentis nonaginta annis».
BIBL.: G. Biasiotti-S. Pesarini, Pitture del XII sec. scoperte nella basilica di S. Croce in Gerusalemme a Roma, in Studi romani, 1 (1913), p. 251, tav. 25, 2. Enrico Josi