Al-Mushtarak wadh'a wal-Muftaraq Sa'qa
| Name of text: | Al-Mushtarak wadh'a wal-Muftaraq Sa'qa |
| Author of text: | Yaqut |
| Date of text: | 13th century |
| Date of person in text: | 1179-1229 |
| Name of structure in text: | Medina Mosque |
| Type of structure in text: | mosque |
| Date of structure in text | 8th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 8 AD |
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| Country in text: | Saudi Arabia |
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| City in text: | Medina |
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| Description of mosaic in text: | Al-Walid wrote to the king of Rum to inform him that he wanted to restore the mosque of the Prophet [Medina] and asked him for workmen. The king sent 40 Rum and 40 Copts and dispatched 40,000 mithqal (one = 4.25 g) of gold and loads of mosaics. The Rum and the Copts demolished the mosque. They prepared a paste to use for the placement of the mosaic […] |
| Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Yaqut, al-Mushtarak wadh'a wal-Muftaraq Sa'qa, trans. by J. Wustenfeld (Leipzig: 1866-73), vol. 4, p. 466, quoted in Margurite van Berchem, ‘Les Mosaiques de la Mosquée des Omayyades a Damas’, in Eustache de Lorey and Marguerite Gautier van Berchem, Monuments et Mémoires (Paris: Foundation Eugene Piot, 1929), p. 132 |
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