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195. Khān al-Zabīb | خان الزبيب

‘Ammān Governorate

Jāmi‘

JADIS no. 251 0001

MEGA no. 2725, mosque 15447

Coordinates: 31°30'46.5"N 36°05'07.2"E

31.512903, 36.085333

 

 

Plan: square, with four free standing columns in center corresponding with pilasters on E and W sides; miḥrab protruding on the exterior of S wall; in center of N and E wall a door.

Measurements: 104.32 m2

Exterior: 11.25 x 11.58 m (Provincia Arabia)

Interior: 10.05 x 10.38 m (Provincia Arabia)

Building Materials: Local limestone.

Construction details: Flat roof or triple barrel vaulted roof supported by two parallel rows of tripple arches.

Preservation: recently destroyed by bulldozer.

Inscription(s): none known.

Date(s): Umayyad.

Traveler Reports: see Provincia Arabia and Arabia Petraea.

Bibliography: Tristram 1873 (21874) 173; Provincia Arabia II, 77-79; Arabia Petraea I, 176; Musil 1908, 10; Genequand 2002, 587-588 fig. 6,4; O’Kane 2005, 195 fig. 7; Housan 2008, 121-122; Nahar 2009, 75- 79; Bujard – Trillen 1997, 353-357; Darakneh 1998, 43 with plan in appendix; Bujard - Genequand 2001, 192-193 fig. 3; Sqour - Abu Ghanimeh 2014, 3 with notes 3-4.

 
Fig. 195.1 Sketch ground plan(Bujard – Trillen 1997).
Fig. 195.2 Umayyad capital found in the near-by Khan (TMW-K 2016).
Fig. 195.3 Total view from W, condition 2014 (TMW-K 2016).
Fig. 195.4 Condition prior to bulldozing, view from NW (NAt 2004).

Figures

[Fig. 195.1 ]
Sketch ground plan(Bujard – Trillen 1997).

[Fig. 195.2 ]
Umayyad capital found in the near-by Khan (TMW-K 2016).

[Fig. 195.3 ]
Total view from W, condition 2014 (TMW-K 2016).

[Fig. 195.4 ]
Condition prior to bulldozing, view from NW (NAt 2004).