Epistle to Hilal abn Muhsin
| Name of text: | Epistle to Hilal abn Muhsin |
| Author of text: | Ibn Butlan |
| Date of text: | 1051 |
| Date of person in text: | d. 1052 |
| Name of structure in text: | Church in Kasr Rusafah |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
| Date of structure in text | begun by order of Constantine |
| Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
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| Country in text: | Syria |
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| City in text: | Kasr Rusafah |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | exterior |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Within it is a mighty church, the exterior of which is ornamented with gold mosaics, begun by order of Constantine, the son of Helena. |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| 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. 522 According to Le Strange, Ibn Butlan is quoted verbatim in Yakut's Mu'jam al Buldan - The Alphabetical [Dictionary] of Geography, ed. by Prof. Wustenfeld (Leipzig: 1866) 6 vols |
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