315. Sabata, as-, Khirbet | خربة السباتة ؟

Jerash Governorate

Jāmi‘

JADIS no. 231 8036

MEGA no. 2384

Coordinates: 32°17'33.7"N 35°51'06.9"E

32.292694, 35.851925

Plan: broad rectangular with entrance from the E; qibla wall in the S resting on high substructions of an older date. The miḥrāb, which was formerly in the middle of the S wall, is not clearly visible anymore due to illegal excavation.

Measurements: unknown.

Exterior: unknown.

Interior: unknown.

Building Materials: The substruction of the mosque consists of large solid cubic limestone blocks in header-and stretcher bondage of probably Hellenistic or early Roman origin, some of the blocks have been chiseled with rustication.

Construction details: in some sectors careful ancient masonry, in other irregular with unworked boulders. The construction of the roof cannot be determined.

Preservation: ruined; not in use for Muslim prayer.

Inscription(s): none known.

Date(s): according to surface pottery Umayyad, Ayyubid-Mamluk to Ottoman.

Traveler Reports: none known.

Bibliography: Steuernagel 1927, A, 398; Mittmann 1970, 100 no. 258; Khouri 2009, 127 s.v. Khirbat es-.