Reproduction of Madaba mosaic map
odd: label: Publication Note
content: The map is disccused in detail in I.M. Casanowicz, "Collections of Old World Archeology in the U.S. National Museum," Smithsonian Annual Report, 1922, pages 451-52 and "A Colored Drawing of the Medeba Mosaic Map of Palestine in the U. S. National Museum," Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, volume 49, pages 359-76, 1916.
label: Variant Title
content: Map of Palestine of Byzantine period with emphasis on places of Biblical importance

Medeba mosaic map
name: label: Creator
content: Unknown
place: label: Place
content: Middle East
label: Place
content: Jordan
title: label: Topic
content: Madaba map
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Gift of S.W. Woodward to the United States National Museum, January 12, 1914. Woodward acquired the map from a bookdealer in Jerusalem in 1899. The map was transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in 1976.
creator: label: Creator
content: Unknown
bioghist: label: Historical Note
content: The Madaba mosaic map is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan. The map depicts part of the Middle East and contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem. It dates to the sixth century CE and was rediscovered in 1884 during the construction of a new Greek Orthodox church.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Map (colored linen paper, 71.25 x 29.5 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: before 1899
container: label: Container
content: Roll 281099
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS281099
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Maps
label: Type
content: Maps
label: Type
content: Works of art
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Maps
label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a color reproduction on linen of the Madaba mosaic map, made prior to 1899.  The map was displayed for many years in Old World Archaeology Hall, United States National Museum.

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