• Source: Umm ar-Rasas mosaics

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 illustrating the most important cities of the region.




Town mosaic






= Outer frame, left (northern) side

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A series of eight cities in Palestine are shown in the frame:

Jerusalem (Hagia-polis [Holy City])
Nablus (Neapolis)
Sebastia (Sebastis)
Caesarea
Lydda (Diospolis)
Eleutheropolis (Bayt Jibrin)
Ascalon (Askalon)
Gaza





































= Outer frame, right (southern) side

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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

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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.













































See also


Early Byzantine mosaics in the Middle East




References






Bibliography


Piccirillo, Michele; Attiyat, Taysir (1986). "The Complex of Saint Stephen at Umm er-Rasas-Kastron Mefaa. First Campaign, August 1986". Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. 30. Department of Antiquities, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.: 341–352. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
Piccirillo, Michele (1988). "The Mosaics at Um er-Rasas in Jordan". The Biblical Archaeologist. 51 (4). The American Schools of Oriental Research: 208–231. doi:10.2307/3210072. ISSN 0006-0895. JSTOR 3210072. S2CID 192366752. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
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:10.1017/s104775940001789x. ISSN 1047-7594. S2CID 250349440.
Eckersley, Tracey (2016). Putting Christians on the map : topographic mosaics from late antique Jordan as representations of authority and status (Thesis). University of Louisville. doi:10.18297/etd/2484.




External links


Ghazi Bisheh "Church of St Stephen" in Discover Islamic Art, Museum With No Frontiers, 2023. 2023.

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• List of archaeological sites in Jordan
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