The Travels of Ibn Jubayr
| Name of text: | The Travels of Ibn Jubayr |
| Author of text: | Ibn Jubayr |
| Date of text: | August-September, 1183 |
| Date of person in text: | 1145-1217 |
| Name of structure in text: | Hijr, The |
| Type of structure in text: | Sacred enclosure |
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| Country in text: | Saudi Arabia |
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| City in text: | Mecca |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | This place, I mean the surroundings of the wall [of the Kaaba, underneath the Mizab, waterspout], is all tessellated marble, wonderfully joined […] with bands of gilded copper worked into its surface like a chess-board, being interlaced with each other and with the shape of mihrabs. When the sun strikes them, such light and brightness shine from them that the beholder conceives them to be gold, dazzling the eyes with their rays. |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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| Bibliography: | The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, ed. and trans. by Roland Broadhurst (London: Goodword Books, 1952, repr. 2011), p. 82 |
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| Comments: | This area adjoins the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque at Mecca |