Itinerario da terra santa, e todas as fuas particularidades. Another pilgrimage still to the Holy Land.
| Name of text: | Itinerario da terra santa, e todas as fuas particularidades. Another pilgrimage still to the Holy Land. |
| Author of text: | Pantaleo d'Aveiro |
| Date of text: | 1552 (pub. Lisbon 1593) |
| Date of person in text: | |
| Name of structure in text: | Dome of the Rock |
| Type of structure in text: | mosque |
| 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: | Upper walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | [...] from the ground up to the middle covered with large slabs all in a piece, polished, of finest marble; from the middle upwards to the first moulding of the top is all of the richest mosaic, with many designs of branches, roses, and other beautiful flowers. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 7 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
| Colour descriptions in text: | |
| Bibliography: | Pantaleo d'Aveiro, Itinerario da terra santa, e todas as fuas particularidades. Another pilgrimage still to the Holy Land (Lisbon: 1593). |
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| Comments: | Quote in Creswell, K. A. C., A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture (1958), p. 31. |