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Madaba Map

The Madaba Map is a 6th-century mosaic floor in a Byzantine church in Jordan, carrying the earliest surviving cartographic depiction of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Discussed here as part of a piece on Roman and Byzantine Jerusalem, where its detail helps reconstruct the city plan of the period.

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Damascus Gate, Jerusalem
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Roman and Byzantine Jerusalem

A field-trip day tracing the Roman and Byzantine layers of Jerusalem: Zedekiah's Cave by the Damascus Gate, the arches at Alexander Nevsky, the Byzantine corners of the Holy Sepulchre, the cardo, and the ruins of the Nea Church.

Dec 2013 · 3 minute read
Zedekiah's Cave, Jerusalem Damascus Gate, Jerusalem Roman or Byzantine arch in the Alexander Nevsky Church, Jerusalem Arches of Monomachos together with later crusader arches in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre The upper Byzantine cardo, Jerusalem Apse of the Nea Church
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