Letter H
142. Ḥuṣn, al- | الحصن
Irbid Governorate
Masjid
JADIS no. 232 1001
MEGA no. 2681, settlement 14686
Coordinates: 32°29'23.0"N 35°52'48.0"E
32.489722, 35.880000
Plan: square, door slightly decentered in N wall, miḥrāb incorporated into S wall; in its position not exactly in axis to the entrance, slightly shifted to the E. In the interior corners reused limestone columns.
Measurements: 5.6 m2
Exterior: 3 x 3.5 m (Nahar (2009)
Interior: 2.70 x 2.10 m (Nahar (2009)
Building Materials: white limestone ashlars, partly of considerable size and well dressed, probably of older origin. According to Nahar (2009) the reused elements belonged to a Byzantine church near-by. The exterior door-frame consists of orthostates limestone blocks. The reused limestone column shafts are monolithic. In the Mamluk occupation phase a light red floor of polished plaster was added.
Construction details: irregular masonry with massive blocks at the corners and larger blocks at the outside and interior faces. The interior courses of the walls are filled with smaller flakes and rubble, bound with mortar. Floor out of mud and reinforced by bigger stone slabs in the Umayyad phase. This floor was overlaid by plaster in the Mamluk period. The original roofing was a vault resting on the columns placed in the interior corners. In the Mamluk period, the roof was replaced by a single barrel vault.
Preservation: ruined, excavated, not in use for Muslim prayer.
Inscription(s): none known.
Date(s): Two construction phases dated by pottery evidence of the excavation into the Umayyad and the Ayyubid-Mamluk periods.
Traveler Reports: none known.
Bibliography: Muheissin 2009, 6; Nahar 2009; Nahar 2010, 16-17; Ta‘an 2019, 87-88 figs. 3. 50-54.
Fig. 142.1 Ground plan (Muheisin 2009, 6 fig. bottom right). 
