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Madaba map

LC control no.n 99016644
Uniform title headingMadaba map
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Variant(s)Medeba map
Mapat Medva
Madaba mosaic map
Mosaikkarte von Madeba
Found inBe-ʻiḳvot mapat Medva, 1988.
Ency. Judaica, c1981: vol. 11, col. 676 (Madaba; Medeba; Madaba mosaic map, laid in transept of a 6th century church. Originally measured 72' x 23'; represented the Biblical Holy Land and the neighboring region; map oriented toward the east with the Mediterranean sea at the bottom)
Enc. Brit., 1992: vol. 7, p. 650 (Madaba map; details plan of Jerusalem; Madaba mosaic map; the oldest known map of the Holy land; dates back to the 6th century A.D)
Israel. Maḥleḳet ha-medidot. The Madaba map = Mapat Medva,, 1979?
Die Mosaikkarte von Madeba, 1977.
Kok Pharos. The Madaba map, 1992.