Mu’jam mā ista'jam
Name of text: | Mu’jam mā ista'jam |
Author of text: | Al-Bakri |
Date of text: | 1067-8 |
Date of person in text: | 1014-94 |
Name of structure in text: | Church at Najran, Saudi Arabia |
Type of structure in text: | church |
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Country in text: | Saudi Arabia |
Region in text: | south |
City in text: | Najran |
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Description of mosaic in text: | glittering with mosaics |
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Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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Bibliography: | Al-Bakri, Mu’jam ma ista'jam, ed. F. Wiistenfeld (Gottingen, 1877), 756, quoted by H. Lammens, in "Yazid et les Nagrannites," Melanges de la Faculte Orientale, Universite Saint-Joseph, 5,2 (1912), 660 n. 1. See also Shahîd, Irfan, ‘Byzantium in South Arabia’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 33 (1979), 23-94, p. 68, n. 118. |
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