John Poloner's Description of the Holy Land
Name of text: | John Poloner's Description of the Holy Land |
Author of text: | John Poloner |
Date of text: | c. 1421 |
Date of person in text: | fifteenth century |
Name of structure in text: | Church of the Nativity |
Type of structure in text: | church |
Date of structure in text | 339, 530s, 1165-69 |
Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 12 AD |
Country in text: | Israel |
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City in text: | Bethlehem |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | wall on right-hand side on entry |
Description of mosaic in text: | It has Christ’s genealogy painted in mosaics up above on the right-hand side as one comes in. |
Mosaic date in text: | |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
Colour descriptions in text: | |
Bibliography: | John Poloner, John Poloner’s Description of the Holy Land, trans. by Aubrey Stewart (London: Palestine Pilgrims Text Society, 1894), p. 19 |
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