Book of Gifts and Rarities/Kitab al-Hadaya wa al-Tuhaf
| Name of text: | Book of Gifts and Rarities/Kitab al-Hadaya wa al-Tuhaf |
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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 | 707 |
| Century of structure 1: | 8 AD |
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| Country in text: | Syria |
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| City in text: | Damascus |
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| Description of mosaic in text: | When al-Walid decided to build the mosque of Damascus in the year 88/707, the Byzantine (Rum) emperor sent him then a gift consisting of a hundred thousand mithqals(1= 4.25g)of gold and forty mule loads (waqr) of mosaics, together with a thousand labourers. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
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| Bibliography: | Qaddumi, Ghada al-Hijjawi, Book of Gifts and Rarities/Kitab al-Hadaya wa al-Tuhaf (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1996), No. 9, 65, quoted in Finbarr Barry Flood, The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2001), p. 20 |
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