Byzantium in South Arabia
| Name of text: | Byzantium in South Arabia |
| Author of text: | Irfan Shahid |
| Date of text: | 1979 |
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| Name of structure in text: | Churches |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
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| Country in text: | Syria |
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| City in text: | Najran |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | walls and ceiling |
| Description of mosaic in text: | This is a town in central Syria, in the Laja (Trachonitis), clearly named after the South Arabian Najran just as the Iraqi one was so named. Yâqût describes its church, bî'a, as "great, beautiful, built upon marble columns, and decorated with mosaics. It is a blessed place to which both Muslims and Christians make vows |
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| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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| Bibliography: | Irfan, Shahid, 'Byzantium in South Arabia', Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 33 (1979), 23-94, pp. 69 (n. 118), 71, 79 Al-Bakri, Mu'jam, ed. by F. Wustenfeld (Gottingen: 1877), p. 756 Yaqut, Mu'jam al-Buldan, ed. by F. Wustenfeld (Leipzig: 1867), II, 703 |
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