Muruj al-dhahab, Prairies of gold
| Name of text: | Muruj al-dhahab, Prairies of gold |
| Author of text: | Al-Masoudi |
| Date of text: | 947 |
| Date of person in text: | 896-956 |
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| Country in text: | Iraq |
| Region in text: | Khuzestan Province |
| City in text: | Rumiya (today Rumiat) |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Monuments and their interior walls. |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Loads of tesserae imported from Syria. Varied and brilliant colours, some translucent. |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
| Colour descriptions in text: | coloured |
| Bibliography: | Al-Masoudi, Prairies d'or, Muruj al-dhahab, ed. and trans. by by Barbier de Meynard and Pavet de Courteille (Paris: 1861-77), vol. 2, p. 199, ed. pub. 1914, quoted in de Lorey, Eustache, ‘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. 127 |
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