BD 31
| Name of structure: | BD 31 |
| Extended name of structure: | Five-aisled Basilica |
| Type of structure: | Church |
| Country or main area: | Jordan |
| Region within country or main area: | Gadara/Umm Qais |
| City or area within region: | Gadara/Umm Qais |
| Date of structure: | 4C-6C |
| Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 6 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | 342 fragments of walls mosaic with plaster (now in Umm Qais Museum). |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Some fragments have inscriptions and are suggested to come from the triumphal arch (Al-Daire, 2001). Fragments found are both curved and straight. |
| Date of mosaic: | 4C-6C |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 4 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | 6 AD |
| Silver tessera at site: | No |
| Gold tessera at site: | No |
| 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: | 1985-1990: teams from Deutschen Evangelischen Instituts für Alterturmswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes DHEIAHL) led by Gunther Schauerte; the Jordan Department of Antiquities and Deutsches Archäeologischen Institut (DAI). |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Al-Daire, M, Die fünfschiffige Basilika in Gadara-Umm Qais Jordanien (Marburg: Tectum, 2001) Bol, P. C., Hofmann, A. & Weber, T., 'Gadara in der Dekapolis. Deutsche Ausgrabungen bei Umm Qais in Nordjordanien 1986 bis 1988', Archäologischer Anzeiger (1990). |
| URLs: | Deutsches Archäeologischen Umm Qais work: http://www.dainst.org/index_5825ea59bb1f14a156320017f0000011_de.html Deutschen Evangelischen Instituts für Alterturmswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes Umm Qais work: http://www.tallziraa.de//0_101.html |
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