The Madaba Map Centenary 1897 - 1997. Travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad Period.

The Madaba map centenary, 1897-1997 : travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad period = al-Dhikra al-mi'awiyah li-kharitat Madaba : khilala al-'asr al-Umawi al-Bizanti : proceedings of the international conference held in Amman, 7-9 April 1997 [Collectio maior, 40.]

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 278 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. CONTENTS : Madaba: One hundred years from the discovery / M. Piccirillo. -- The discovery of the Madaba Mosaic map: mythology and reality / Y. Meimaris. -- The uniqueness of the Madaba map and its restoration in 1965 / H. Donner. -- The Tabula Peutingeriana and the Madaba map / E. Weber. -- The legends of the Madaba map / E. Alliata. -- The cartographic context of the Madaba map / P.D.A. Harvey. -- The roads in Roman-Byzantine Palaestina and Arabia / I. Roll. -- The 'onomasticon' of Eusebius and the Madaba map / L. Di Segni. -- The pilgrimage routes during the Byzantine period in Transjordan / E. Alliata. -- The palaeography of the Madaba map / J. Russell. -- Essai sur la signification des vignettes topographiques / N. Duval. -- The Madaba mosaic map revisited: some new observations / I. Shahid. -- The Holy City of Jerusalem in the Madaba map / Y. Tsafrir. -- The representation of the late antique city in the Madaba map / W. Pullan. -- Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the iconography of church sanctuary mosaics / R. Farioli Campanati. -- The river Nile and Egypt in the mosaics of the Middle East / B. Hamarneh. -- Some ideas on the preservation of the Madaba mosaic map / A. Almagro. Nº de ref. del artículo: PGIES82

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