The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture
| Name of text: | The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture |
| Author of text: | Finbar Barry Flood |
| Date of text: | 2001 |
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| 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: | Interior of south wall. |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Flood provides a translation of the original, now no longer extant, inscriptions. They were contained in four superimposed narrow bands along with the interior of the south wall. Glass mosaic, gold script on blue background. pp. 247-254 |
| Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
| Colour descriptions in text: | blue |
| Bibliography: | Flood, Finbarr Barry, The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2001), pp. 247-254 |
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