| Name of text: |
Book of Lands |
| Author of text: |
Yaqubi |
| Date of text: |
9th century |
| Date of person in text: |
d. 897-8 |
| Name of structure in text: |
Medina Mosque |
| Type of structure in text: |
Mosque |
| Date of structure in text |
707-9 |
| Century of structure 1: |
8 AD |
| Century of structure 2: |
9 AD |
| Country in text: |
Saudi Arabia |
| Region in text: |
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| City in text: |
Medina |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: |
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| Description of mosaic in text: |
Byzantine emperor sent 100,000 mithquals [1 = 4.25g] of gold, a number of workmen and 40 loads of mosaics for restoration. |
| Mosaic date in text: |
9 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? |
No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? |
No |
| Colour descriptions in text: |
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| Bibliography: |
Ahmad al Ya’qubi, Histoire, ed by M. Th. Houtsma (Leiden: 1883), vol. 1, p. 340, lines 5-9, quoted by Margurite van Berchem, in ‘Les Mosaiques de la Mosquée des Omayyades a Damas’, in Eustache de Lorey and Marguerite Gautier van Berchem, Monuments et Mémoires (Paris: Foundation Eugene Piot, 1929), p. 126 |
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