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Location:

  • Jordan, Sāl
  • geo:32.56266,35.948299
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • 5xx / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=44349

Annotations

Yasileh Church II dates to the early sixth century as indicates the inscription on the mosaic pavemen1.

See:

  1. Zeidoun al-Muheisen and Mohammad Nassar: The Second Church at Yasileh in Jordan and its Mosaics in: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 52 (2012), pp.  661–683  https://www.academia.edu/22032992/The_Second_Church_at_Yasileh_in_Jordan_and_its_Mosaics 
  2. Geometric Mosaic Pavements of Yasileh in Jordan.  Mohammad Nassar    Zeidoun Al-Muheisen  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233494626_Geometric_Mosaic_Pavements_of_Yasileh_in_Jordan

References

  1. The inscription dates the church to A.D. 528 by the era of Bostra - The Second Church at Yasiyeh...2012


Nearby

Yasileh Press Installation

Rock hewn wine press installations.

Yasileh Necropolis

Funeral chambers & tombs on the slopes of the wadi Yasileh

Yasileh, Jordan

The ancient Town straddles the wadi Al-Yasileh (Al-Shalalih)


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