A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-97
| Name of text: | A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-97 |
| Author of text: | Ibn Sasra |
| Date of text: | 1397-99 |
| Date of person in text: | Fourteenth century |
| Name of structure in text: | Umayyad Mosque/Great Mosque of Damascus |
| Type of structure in text: | mosque |
| Date of structure in text | Eighth century |
| Century of structure 1: | 8 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 8 AD |
| Country in text: | Syria |
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| City in text: | Damascus |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Southern wall of the mosque |
| Description of mosaic in text: | It [the gold karma - vine] was inlaid with jewels; sapphires, pearls, coral, carnelian, and all sorts of gems which were in the vine above the mihrab. This however was taken out when [the mosque] burned and fell into ruin. This was replaced with the glass mosaic and other things which are there today. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | |
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| Bibliography: | Ibn Sasra, Muhammad ibn Muhammad, A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-97, fols 120b-121a, trans. by William M. Brinner, 2 vols (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963) , quoted in Finbarr Barry Flood, The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2001), p. 58 |
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| Comments: | Presumably after the fire of 1069. |