Endnote 33 - Jerusalem as Mosaic
Hershel Shanks, Excavating in the Shadow of the Temple Mount, BAR 12:06.
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Hershel Shanks, Excavating in the Shadow of the Temple Mount, BAR 12:06.
See Meir Ben-Dov, Found After 1,400 YearsThe Magnificent Nea, BAR 03:04.
See Bargil Pixner, Church of the Apostles Found on Mt. Zion, BAR 16:03.
The Holy Land also appears in a fourth-century administrative road map of the Roman-Byzantine Empire, known only from medieval copies. See Herbert Donner, The Mosaic Map of MadabaAn Introductory Guide, Palaestina antiqua 7 (Kampen, the Netherlands: Kok Pharos, 1992).
For an earlier study of the map, see Michael Avi-Yonah, The Madaba Mosaic Map (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1954).
See Dan Barag, Glass Pilgrim Vessels from Jerusalem: Part I, Journal of Glass Studies 12 (1970), pp. 3563; Barag, Glass Pilgrim Vessels from Jerusalem: Parts II and III, Journal of Glass Studies 13 (1971), pp. 4563. I am grateful to Professor Barag for bringing this group of objects and the relevant articles to my attention.