Siria Sacra
| Name of text: | Siria Sacra |
| Author of text: | Biagio Terzi |
| Date of text: | 1695 |
| Date of person in text: | Seventeenth century |
| Name of structure in text: | S. John the Baptist, Samaria |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
| Date of structure in text | Build by Crusaders in 1165 |
| Century of structure 1: | 12 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | Unknown |
| Country in text: | Palestine |
| Region in text: | Samaria |
| City in text: | Sebastia, 12k from Nablus |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Small cupola over altar |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Mosaic on gold ground |
| Mosaic date in text: | |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
| Colour descriptions in text: | |
| Bibliography: | Biagio Terzi, Siria Sacra (Rome: Bernabo, 1695), quoted in A. L. Frothingham, ‘Notes on Christian Mosaics. III. The Lost Mosaics of the East’, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 4.2 (1888), 127-148, see p. 145 |
| URLs: | Ebook of Siria Sacra can be found on: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=h BF2sdLwlxIC |
| Comments: | NB This entry has not been properly verified with the prime source quoted. |