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Surroundings:

Kastron Mefaa, Cappella dei Pavoni

Location:

  • Jordan, Umm ar Raşāş
  • geo:31.500629,35.921108
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • 574~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=57451

Annotations

Byzantine Church of the Lions dates to 574or 586 or 589, named for its mosaic that includes two lions.

See:

  1. Piccirillo Michele. Les églises paléochrétiennes d'Umm er-Rasas (Jordanie) : cinq campagnes de fouilles. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 135ᵉ année, N. 2, 1991. pp. 273-294
  2. R.Gabrielli-A.Salvatori-A.Lazzari-D.Portarena: Il sito di Umm ar-Rasas (Kastron Mefaa), Giordania, in A. Caravale (a cura di), Scavare, Documentare, Conservare: viaggio nella ricerca archeologica del CNR, CNR, Roma 2016, pp. 236-241
  3. Zeidoun al-Muheisen and Mohammad Nassar: The Second Church at Yasileh in Jordan and its Mosaics in: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 52 (2012), pp.  661–683 - file:///C:/Users/BIBLIO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/14637-13323-1-PB.pdf
  4. http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?recid=E02570

Nearby

Umm Al-Rasas [Kastrom Mefa'a, Mefaat]

Ancient settlement. Biblical Mefaat.

Kastron Mefaa, Cappella dei Pavoni

Umm Al-Rasas, Cappella dei Pavoni. Mefaat.

Umm Al-Rasas, Church of Bishop Sergius

Umm Al-Rasas [Kastrom Mefa'a, Mefaat]. Byzantine church.


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