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The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem has the Cardo Maximus, the town ’ s main street, beginning at the northern gate, today's Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls | Damascus Gate, and traversing the city in a straight line from north to south to Nea Church.
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Part of the Madaba Map showing Ænon
The Madaba Map shows the location of Ænon, symmetrical with the location of Bethabara ( the other place where John the Baptist baptized ), across the Jordan.
The Madaba Map depiction of sixth-century Jerusalem
The Madaba Map, a sixth-century mosaic map of Jerusalem (" Η ΑΓΙΑ ПОΛΙΣ ") uses the lunate sigma.
The Cardo ’ s most striking visual feature was its colonnade, clearly depicted on the Madaba Map.
Rafah is mentioned in Strabo ( 16, 2, 31 ), the Antonine Itinerary, and is depicted on the Map of Madaba.
Part of the Madaba Map showing Bethabara ( Βέθαβαρά ), calling it the place where John baptised
Part of the Madaba Map showing Bethabara, Βέθαβαρά το τού άγίου Ιωάννου τού βαπτίσματος: Bethabara, the place of John the Baptist | St. John's baptism | baptising.
The reading Bethabara became current owing to the advocacy of both Origen., and John Chrysostom, and that same Bethabara is attested in both the 6th century AD Madaba Map and in the Jewish Talmud.
" The City of Eleutheropolis ": in The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997, ( Jerusalem ) pp 244 – 246.
Part of the ancient Madaba Map showing two possible Baptism locations
In the 4th century, Eusebius of Caesarea stated that the location was on the wes bank of the Jordan, and following him, the early Byzantine Madaba Map shows Bethabara as ( Βέθαβαρά ).
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After the recapture of Jerusalem in 132 AD the emperor Hadrian had the city rebuilt as a Roman city called Aelia Capitolina and a tall pillar in the plaza inside the Damascus Gate was the starting point for measurements to other cities, as indicated in the mosaic Madaba Map.
Madaba and Jerusalem
* 110 BCE: John Hyrcanus carries out the first military conquests of the independent Hasmonean kingdom, raising a mercenary army to capture Madaba and Schechem, significantly increasing the regional influence of Jerusalem
Madaba map showing Roman Cardo in Jerusalem
Their proposal relied heavily on the sixth century Madaba map, a mosaic map of Jerusalem found in 1897 in Madaba, Jordan.
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He is married and has a daughter who attended Princeton University and a son who graduated from King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan and who currently attends Columbia.
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Following the cessation of Heshbon Expedition excavations, archaeological work at the site continued in 1996 under the Madaba Plains Project consortium.
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() The Tribe of Reuben was allocated the territory immediate east of the Dead Sea, reaching from the Arnon river in the south, and as far north as the Dead Sea stretched, with an eastern border vaguely defined by the land dissolving into desert ; the territory included the plain of Madaba.
That these limits were not fixed, however, is plain from the lists of cities given in and Jeremiah xlviii., where Heshbon, Elealeh, and Jazer are mentioned to the north of Beth-jeshimoth ; Madaba, Beth-gamul, and Mephaath to the east of Baalmeon ; and Dibon, Aroer, Bezer, Jahaz, and Kirhareseth to the south of Kiriathaim.
He was born in Madaba in 1935 and came to England from Jordan in the 1950s, to study drama.
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Kenyon's legacy in the field of excavation technique and ceramic methodology is attested to by Larry G. Herr, one of the directors of the Madaba Plains Project.
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The mosaic map of Madaba wrongly locates Shiloh east of Shechem, omitting to picture the church.
They later on moved to the centre parts of Jordan to settle in Madaba under the family name of Al-Hamarneh.
Part of the mosaic of Hippolytus in the Archaeological Park of Madaba, Jordan.
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In Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings he supported the suggestion made by Arlington Mallery that a part of the Piri Reis Map was a depiction of the area of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.
Map based on CIA version and UNO version, depiction based on Encyclopædia Britannica map of India.
The British regard for the Persian claim to Sirri ( and perhaps Tonb ) was affected significantly by the depiction of the Tonbs and Serri in the same color as that of Persia in the 1886 Map of Persia, which Naser-al-Din Shah Qajar of Persia now astutely cited against the British when they protested the Persian actions on Sirri.
Map and 6th-century
Map of Briton settlements in the 6th-century, including what became Brittany and Britonia ( in Spain ).
Map of British settlements in the 6th-century.
Map of Briton settlements in the 6th-century.
Map and Jerusalem
* Map of Jerusalem Mar.
* Map of the main Haredi Communities in Jerusalem
Map of East Jerusalem
Map of Jerusalem as it appeared in the years 958 – 1052, according to Arab geographer s such as al-Muqaddasi
* Olami, Y., Sender, S. and Oren, E., Map of Dor ( 30 ) ( Jerusalem, Israel Antiquities Authority, 2005 ).
Map showing Pisgat Ze ' ev and other Jewish ( in blue ) and Arab ( in green ) localities in East Jerusalem and the West Bank ; the 1949 armistice line is in green, the boundary of East Jerusalem in red, and the pre-1967 border of the East Jerusalem Municipality in brown.
Map of Jerusalem in 70 ; the Temple is in yellow
* Map of the siege of Jerusalem
Falls ' Sketch Map 21: Defence of Jerusalem.
* Kochavi, M. and Beit Arieh, I., Map of Rosh Ha-ʿAyin ", Jerusalem: IAA, 1994.
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