description
| Name of text: | description |
| Author of text: | Istakhri and Ibn Haukal |
| Date of text: | c. 951 and 978 |
| Date of person in text: | |
| Name of structure in text: | Dome of the Rock |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
| Date of structure in text | 688-91 |
| Century of structure 1: | 7 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Country in text: | Israel |
| Region in text: | |
| City in text: | Jerusalem |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | walls and the drum, within and without |
| Description of mosaic in text: | The Dome, externally, is completely covered with brass plates gilt, while the building itself, its floor, and its walls, and the drum, both within and without, are ornamented with marble and mosaics, after the manner that we shall describe when speaking of the Mosque of Damascus. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 7 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
| Colour descriptions in text: | |
| 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. 124 |
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| Comments: | This is in a double book |