Letter N
275. Nu‘ēme, an- / Khirbet ad-Dōḥaleh | النعيمة / خربة دوحلة
Irbid governorate
Jāmi‘ / masjid
JADIS no. 2320007.
MEGA no. 2816
Coordinates: 32°24'51.2"N 35°54'47.4"E
32.414220, 35.913175
Plan: Located in a cemetery which has been partly excavated to the N and the W of the mosque; broad rectangular with entrance (hypothetical) in the N; E wall destroyed, qibla S wall, miḥrāb projecting to the exterior.
Measurements: ca. 46 m2
Exterior: 11.5 x 4 m (Sari 1992).
Building Materials: partly well-dressed limestone blocks with mortar and plaster.
Construction details: masonry in horizontal courses; interior walls covered by two layers of plaster. The floor consists of two layers of mortar, the upper one has a thickness of 35 cm.
Preservation: excavated ruin, not in use for Muslim prayer.
Inscription(s): An inscription stone has been found during the excavation invoking “Allāh - Muḥammed;” no facsimile nor photograph has been published.
Date(s): Only Roman and Byzantine pottery has been found inside the mosque. The finds in the surrounding cemetery (pottery, coins) attest an occupation of the site until the Ayyubid-Mamluk periods. Sari 1993 dates the mosque by the shape of the miḥrāb to the later Umayyad period = 72-132 H = 691-750 AD).
Traveler Reports: none known.
Bibliography: Steuernagel 1927, A. 136. 250; Mittmann 1970, 29-30. 77. 260; Daire 1988, 60 s.v. Dōhala; Sari 1989, 17-18; Sari 1990, 6-9; Sari 1991a, 11-13. 18-20; Sari 1991b, 5-16; Sari 1992, 368-372; Ajlouni 1992, 32-33; Sari 1993: 8-10; Darakdeh 1998, 47 with plan in appendix; Khouri 2009, 122 s.v. Dohaleh (Dohaleh el-Na‘ymeh); Ta‘an 2019, 111-112.
