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Madaba Map. Coordinates: 31°43′3.54″N 35°47′39.12″E. Jerusalem on the Madaba Map. 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 mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the ...
The Madaba map identifies Biblical events and places in its Greek text and also represents and names many of the physical features of the Holy Land during the late Byzantine period. Large red letters designate areas allotted to the tribes of Israel. On the far right is the word “Judah”; the large red letters at the bottom center are part of ...
- Purpose of Madaba’S Holy Land Map
- A New Theory of Madaba’S Holy Land Map
- The Origins of Madaba’S Holy Land Map
- The Sources of Madaba’S Holy Land Map
- Notes
To this day, the purpose of Madaba’s Holy Land map remains a mystery, along with the identification of its creators. However, three main theories have been put forward as to the map’s original purpose. One hypothesis holds that the map was originally intended to serve as a guide for Christian pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land, either as an actual...
There are notable problems with these two theories, however, in that many of the places noted on the map have nothing to do with Christian pilgrimage, and many holy sites are either completely missing from the map or appear only as minor features. For instance, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is completely missing and Bethlehem itself is ma...
The extant map measures about 35 by 15 feet, or around 560 square feet. Most scholars estimate that the map was originally around 1,000 square feet, although some think it was even larger, perhaps double that size. But even at the smaller extent, the original mosaic map would have been made up of more than 1 million tesserae, or individual stone ti...
It is clear that one of the primary sources for the map’s geography was the Greek translation of the Bible. Another major source was the Onomasticon of Biblical Place Namesby Eusebius of Caesarea, written around 320 C.E. Several of the mosaic’s inscriptions are taken word-for-word from Eusebius. It is also likely that the mosaic relied on the works...
1 Herbert Donner, The Mosaic Map of Madaba: An Introductory Guide(Kampen, Netherlands: Kok Pharos Publishing, 1993). 2 Beatrice Leal, “A Reconsideration of the Madaba Map,” Gesta57/2 (2018), pp. 123–143.
Mar 26, 2021 · The cartographic accuracy of the Madaba Map enabled scholars to identify landmarks in its representation of Jerusalem. Among these is the New Church of St. Mary, the Mother of God, consecrated on ...
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Sep 26, 2024 · The Mosaic Map of Madaba (also known as the Madaba Mosaic or Madaba Map) is a fragmentarily preserved late antique to early Byzantine floor mosaic located in the modern Greek Orthodox Church of St. George in Madaba, Jordan. The Madaba Mosaic is the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of Palestine on both sides of the Jordan River ...
Feb 17, 2022 · The oldest surviving original geographic representation of the Holy Land, particularly Jerusalem, can be seen on a portion of the Middle Eastern map known as the Madaba Map. It's from the sixth century AD. As a new Greek Orthodox church was being built on the site of an older one, the mosaic was uncovered in 1884.
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Map: 31°43'11"N, 35°47'35"E. Jordan. Guide explains mosaic map in Church of St George, Madaba (Seetheholyland.net) The remains of the oldest known map of the Holy Land, painstakingly assembled from more than a million pieces of coloured stone, lie on the floor of a church in the Jordanian city of Madaba. This unique art treasure was designed ...
