description
| Name of text: | description |
| Author of text: | Al-Mukaddasi |
| Date of text: | 985 |
| Date of person in text: | |
| Name of structure in text: | Mosque in Amman |
| Type of structure in text: | mosque |
| Date of structure in text | |
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| Country in text: | Jordan |
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| City in text: | Amman |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Courtyard - may refer to pavement |
| Description of mosaic in text: | In the city near the marketplace stands a fine mosque, the court of which is ornamented with mosaic. We have heard said it resembles that of Mecca. |
| Mosaic date in text: | |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Le Strange, Guy, trans., Palestine under the Moslems (London: Alexander P. Watt, 1890), A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from AD 650 to 1500, translated from the works of the Mediaeval Arab Geographers, p. 391 Le Strange's text sourced from M. J. Goeje, Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum (Leiden: 1870, 1873), vol. 3 |
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| Comments: | This may refer to a pavement |