Diary
| Name of text: | Diary |
| Author of text: | Ibn Batutah |
| Date of text: | 1326 |
| Date of person in text: | b. c. 1300 |
| Name of structure in text: | Umayyad Mosque/Great Mosque of Damascus |
| Type of structure in text: | mosque |
| Date of structure in text | 8th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 8 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Country in text: | Syria |
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| City in text: | Damascus |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | The mosque On eight marble columns supporting the largest cupola to the west, Kubbat Ayishah (the Dome of Ayishah), the Mother of the Faithful |
| Description of mosaic in text: | The Mosque was ornamented with mosaics in gold, and in various colours, called Fusaifasah. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
| Colour descriptions in text: | |
| Bibliography: | 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, pp. 267-8 Le Strange referred to text and French trans. in eds. C. Defreymery and B. R. Sanguinetti, Societie Asiatique (Paris: 1879), 4 vols |
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| Comments: | These descriptions show what the mosque was like just before its destruction by fire at the time of Timur’s conquest. |