description
| Name of text: | description |
| Author of text: | Dimashki |
| Date of text: | c. 1300 |
| Date of person in text: | 1256-1327 |
| Name of structure in text: | Umayyad Mosque/Great Mosque of Damascus |
| Type of structure in text: | mosque |
| Date of structure in text | 8th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 8 AD |
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| Country in text: | Syria |
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| City in text: | Damascus |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | above the marble lining the walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | The walls of the Mosque are faced with marble after the most exquisite manner ever seen, and above are mosaics in coloured glass and gold and silver. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | Yes |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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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. 265 Le Strange uses text printed in Petersburg (1866) by M. A. F. Mehren |
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