Great Mosque of Damascus
| Name of structure: | Great Mosque of Damascus |
| Extended name of structure: | Umayyad Mosque |
| Type of structure: | Mosque |
| Country or main area: | Syria |
| Region within country or main area: | |
| City or area within region: | Damascus |
| Date of structure: | 8C |
| Century of structure 1: | 8 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 8 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Courtyard walls |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Cityscapes, landscapes, flora, fauna. |
| Date of mosaic: | 8C |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 8 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | 8 AD |
| Silver tessera at site: | Yes |
| Gold tessera at site: | Yes |
| Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | Unknown |
| Has analysis been done? | No |
| Samples taken from where? | n/a |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | 1920s: E. de Lorey (mosaics uncovered) |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | McKenzie, J., The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 300 B.C.-A.D. 700 (Yale, 2007). de Lorey, E., 'Les Mosaïques de la Mosquée des Omayyades à Damas', Syria 12 (1931), 326-49. Georgopoulou, Maria, 'Geography, cartography and the architecture of power in the mosaics of the Great Mosque of Damascus, in The Build Surface, vol. 1, ed. by Christy Anderson and Karen Koehler (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2002), 47-74 |
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