Kasr Ibn Wardan
| Name of structure: | Kasr Ibn Wardan |
| Extended name of structure: | |
| Type of structure: | Church |
| Country or main area: | Syria |
| Region within country or main area: | 60 k NE from Hama, near al-Hamraa |
| City or area within region: | id-Dabbaghin |
| Date of structure: | Sixth century |
| Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Interior walls |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Loose tesserae found: From the little tesserae lying in the debris it is possible to conjecture that the whole interior blazed with mosaics of that most wonderful period for this particular kind of art. An old native whom we met later, and who seemed to know the whole region well, said that when he was a lad the Vubbeh, i. e. the dome, was standing, and that there were "pictures" on the walls. It is scarcely probable that this old Bedawi had manufactured this story, because he could have had no outside experience on which to base imaginary wall-pictures. |
| Date of mosaic: | Sixth century |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 6 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | |
| Silver tessera at site: | |
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| Colour tessera at site: | |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | |
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| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Butler, H.C., Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition to Syria in 1904-1905 and 1909. Division II: Ancient Architecture in Syria; Section B: Northern Syria; part 6: Djebel Sim’an. (Leiden: 1920), pp. 261-84, see p. 50 on http ://archive.org/stream/publicationsdivi01prinuoft/p ublicationsdivi01prinuoft_djvu.txt |
| URLs: | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasr_ibn_Wardan |
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