7942000 The Madaba Map, also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map, is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan. The...
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large Byzantine-era mosaic map of the Holy Land. Madaba is located 30 kilometres (19 miles) south-west of the capital Amman. Madaba dates from the Middle Bronze...
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still favoured by some. In addition to Aenon near Salem, the 6th-century Madaba Map shows a second Aenon right across the Jordan from Bethabara, near Jericho...
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relied heavily on the sixth century Madaba Map, a mosaic map of Jerusalem found in 1897 in Madaba, Jordan. The map clearly showed the Roman cardo as the...
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Arab Muslim empires. Madaba is known for its Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics, especially the Madaba Map, a large Byzantine-era mosaic map of Palestine and the...
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Jattir (section Madaba Map)
inner Daroma, near Malatha." The town is depicted on the seventh-century Madaba Map. Jattir was identified by Edward Robinson with Khirbet Attir (Horvat Yattir)...
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Cartography of Jerusalem (redirect from Map of Jerusalem)
Imaginary maps of the ancient city and copies of existing maps are excluded. The Madaba Map discovered in modern-day Jordan is the oldest known map of Jerusalem...
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Bethulia (section Madaba Map)
possibly in the vicinity of Ta'anach) in the north, facing Jezreel." The Madaba Map mosaic from the 6th century shows a settlement named Betylium (Ancient...
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(John 1:28–29). The name "Bethabara" also appears on the 6th-century Madaba Map (though west of the Jordan River) and in the Talmud. The name is used...
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Ostrakine (section Madaba Map)
Habakkuk and the martyrdom of James the Less Ostrakine is depicted on the Madaba Map [2] List of ancient Egyptian towns and cities "4care-sites – 4care". Retrieved...
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the sick." The selective details of Jerusalem's monuments reveal the Madaba Map to be concerned with providing the viewer with a topographical hierarchy...
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Ayn al-Zara (section Madaba Map)
acting as a direct calque of the Greek. Callirrhoe is represented on Madaba Map. On the mosaic three constructions can be observed, a spring house, a...
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central open-air passage flanked by sidewalks and shops. The 6th-century Madaba Map includes the Cardo in its detailed depiction of Jerusalem. Significant...
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merchant brothers. Gaza is depicted on the 6th-century mosaic map known as the Madaba Map. Its northern municipal border was marked by Wadi al-Hesi, just...
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mention of Modiʽin: "in monte Modin" ("on the mountain of Modiʽin"). On the Madaba map, commonly dated to the mid-6th century, Modiʽin appears situated on the...
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Synecdemus) and George of Cyprus (early 7th century). In the sixth-century Madaba Map, it is represented in the midst of a grove of palm trees under the names...
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Paralus, Paralius) The town, under its Greek designation, appears in the Madaba Map of the 6th century. This arrangement persisted throughout the Byzantine...
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of Eusebius and the Madaba Map Archived 2004-05-05 at the Wayback Machine, By Leah Di Segni. First published in: The Madaba Map Centenary, Jerusalem...
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identified with modern Khirbet el-Kafrayn, Jordan, and is present on the Madaba Map as an unnamed icon. There is a widely supported theory that in the Hebrew...
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sweetwater springs in the vicinity. The sixth-century mosaic known as the Madaba Map indicates that trade across the Dead Sea was very prevalent during the...
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the Madaba Map, made between 542 and 570 as the floor of the church of Saint George at Madaba, Jordan. It was rediscovered in 1894. The Madaba Map is the...
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near the southern Dead Sea. The location is depicted on the 6th-century Madaba map as "Zoara."[dubious – discuss] Ghor as-Safi is perhaps best known for...
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the Madaba Map, made between 542 and 570 as the floor of the church of Saint George at Madaba, Jordan. It was rediscovered in 1894. The Madaba Map is the...
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"Azotus Paralus - (Ashdod, al-Minah)". A virtual travel through the Madaba Map. Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem. 2000. Archived from the original...
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demonstrated some awareness of Shiloh's location as did the cartographer of the Madaba Map in the 6th century. In 1838, the American biblical scholar Edward Robinson...
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261-295. Bahat, Dan (1999). "The Golden Gate and the Date of the Madaba Map". The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997. Jerusalem: 255. Eliyahu Wager (1988). Illustrated...
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of Eusebius and the Madaba Map Archived 3 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine, By Leah Di Segni. First published in: The Madaba Map Centenary, Jerusalem...
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Constantinian basilica with its colonnaded atrium appears on the 6th-century Madaba Map, under the partially preserved Greek caption "Arbo, also the Terebinth...
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Gath. In the Madaba map of the 6th century, Tell es-Ṣāfi / Tell el-Ṣāfiyya occurs under the name Saphitha (Greek: ΣΑΦΙΘΑ). The Madaba map identifies a...
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on the west bank of the Jordan, and following him, the early Byzantine Madaba Map shows Bethabara as (Βέθαβαρά). The biblical baptising is related to springs...
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