Madaba / Medaba / مدينة مادبا
Image copyright © Mary Kandiuk, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 March 2014)
Results: 6 records
design element - motifs - handle - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mary Kandiuk, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2014 by Mary Kandiuk fro BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 March 2014)
design element - motifs - handle - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mary Kandiuk, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2014 by Mary Kandiuk fro BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 March 2014)
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mary Kandiuk, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2014 by Mary Kandiuk fro BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 March 2014)
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jerzy Strzelecki, 2008
Image Source: photograph taken in 2001 by Jerzy Strzelecki [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Madaba08(js).jpg] [accessed 18 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - mosaic
Scene Description: Photo caption: "A mosaic map of 6th century Jerusalem found under the floor of St George's Church in Madaba, Jordan. The map depicts some famous Old City structures such as the Damascus Gate, St Steven's Gate, the Golden Gate, the gate leading to Mount Zion, the Citadel (Tower of David), the Church of the Holy Sepulcre, and the Cardo Maximus." -- the map was discovered in 1896 in the ruins of the earlier Byzantine church here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Bjorgen, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2005 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Madaba_Jerusalem_Mosaic.jpg] [accessed 18 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: notice the lovely handles in the two positions [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mary Kandiuk, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2014 by Mary Kandiuk fro BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 March 2014)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19146MAD
Church/Chapel: Agios Georgios [Greek Orthodox Basilica of Saint George]
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Country Name: Jordan
Location: Madaba
Directions to Site: Located on the King's Highway, 10 km from Hesban. 30 km SW of Amman
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mary Kandiuk, of York University, Toronto, for her photographs of this font
Church Notes: the present church is 19thC, built on the site of an earlier Byzantine church
Baptismal made of bronze, consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin that is plain but for two handles located at opposite sides; raised on a round splaying pedestal base decorated with graded moulding; there is another set of handles similar to those on the basin at the top of the pedestal base [is it because the basin can be detached from the base?]. Font cover is round, flat and plain, with a handle.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
31.71765,
35.7942
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
31° 43′ 3.54″ N,
35° 47′ 39.12″ E
UTM: 36R 764780 3512536
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
metal, bronze
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood?,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]