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Author of text: | Anonymous |
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Name of structure in text: | Umayyad Mosque/Great Mosque of Damascus |
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Date of structure in text | 8th century |
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Century of structure 2: | 8 AD |
Country in text: | Syria |
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City in text: | Damascus |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | space between two rows of marble columns, one above the other, the lower row being large columns, and those above being smaller |
Description of mosaic in text: | pictures representing every town and tree in the world |
Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
Colour descriptions in text: | green yellow |
Bibliography: | cited by Le Strange, Guy, trans., Palestine under the Moslems (London: Alexander P. Watt, 1890), A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from AD 650 to 1500, translated from the works of the Mediaeval Arab Geographers, p. 268 |
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