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, ²úî'²¹, 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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