Umm ar-Rasas mosaics
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The Umm ar-Rasas mosaics are a number of Byzantine mosaics discovered by Michele Piccirillo in the ruins of the Church of St. Stephen in Umm ar-Rasas, Jordan, in 1986.
Of particular note is a mosaic floor dated to 785, the largest one in Jordan, with a series of panels depicting the most important cities of the region.
Town mosaic
Outer frame, left (northern) side
A series of eight cities in Palestine are shown in the frame:
- Jerusalem (Hagia-polis [Holy City])
- Nablus (Neapolis)
- Sebastia (Sebastis)
- Caesarea
- Lydda (Diospolis)
- Bayt Jibrin (Eleutheropolis)
- Ascalon (Askalon)
- Gaza
- Jerusalem
- Nablus
- Sebastia
- Caesarea
- Lydda
- Eleutheropolis (Bayt Jibrin)
- Ashkelon
- Gaza
Outer frame, right (southern) side
Seven cities in Transjordan are shown in the frame:
- Kastron Mefaa (Umm er-Rasas)
- Philadelphia (Amman)
- Madaba
- Esbounta (Heshbon)
- Belemounta (Ma'in)
- Areopolis (Rabba)
- Charachmoba (Al-Karak)
Two additional cities are shown at the head of each aisle:
- Limbon
- Diblaton
Inner frame
The inner frame includes illustrations of ten cities in the Nile Delta:
- Alexandria
- Kasin (Ras Kouroun)
- Thenesos
- Tamiathis
- Panau
- Pelusium
- Anticiaou(?)
- Eraklion (either Heracleopolis Parva / Sethroë or Heracleion)
- Cynopolis
- Pseudostomon.
- Alexandria
- Kasin (Ras Kouroun)
- Thenesos
- Tamiathis
- Panau
- Pelusium
- Anticiaou(?)
- Eraklion
- Cynopolis
- Pseudostomon
See also
- Early Byzantine mosaics in the Middle East; although dating to the Abbasid period, the mosaics there are part of the Byzantine tradition
Bibliography
- Piccirillo, Michele; Attiyat, Taysir (1986). . Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. 30. Department of Antiquities, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.: 341–352.
- Piccirillo, Michele (1988). . The Biblical Archaeologist. 51 (4). The American Schools of Oriental Research: 208–231. doi:. ISSN . JSTOR . S2CID .
- Balty, Janine (1998). "Les mosaïques d'Umm al-Rasas et la date de 718 - MICHELE PICCIRILLO, EUGENIO ALLIATA, et al., UMM AL-RASAS, MAYFA'AH I: GLI SCAVI DEL COMPLESSO DI SANTO STEFANO (Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Collectio Maior 28; Jerusalem, 1994). Pp. 376, figg. 319, 35 pl. coul., 62 figg. coul., 3 plans dépliants". Journal of Roman Archaeology. 11. Cambridge University Press (CUP): 700–702. doi:. ISSN . S2CID .
- Eckersley, Tracey (2016). (Thesis). University of Louisville. doi:.
External links
- Ghazi Bisheh "" in Discover Islamic Art, Museum With No Frontiers, 2023. 2023.