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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.RafahJouejati-MadwarA Mosaicist’s Workshop in Epiphania (Hama, Syria) at the Beginning of the 5th Centuryhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/DM6MV53Rhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/DM6MV53Rhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/DM6MV53RLa mosaïque gréco-romaine IX, Volume 2 / The Greco-Roman Mosaic IX, Volume 2RomeÉcole française de Rome, Palais Farnèse2005775-784Collection de l’École française de Rome 352The discovery of numerous mosaics, mostly church pavements, in the region of Hama, ancient Epiphania, northern Syria, in the last forty years, has raised among others the question of their makers: the craftsmen who executed them and their workshop. Although Apamea-on-the-Orontes was a leading center of mosaic production at the turn of the fourth century, it is legitimate to wonder whether an independent workshop, possibly based in Epiphania, concurrently operated to produce these particular mosaics. Three monuments were selected for comparison. Situated north-east of Hama and flanking the ancient roads connecting Antioch to Epiphania, they are the church mosaics of Khirbet Muqa, dated 394/395, Murik and Qumhane, these two attributed to the beginning of the fifth century; Qumhane, in turn, was compared to the cathedral of Epiphania, dated by an inscription to 416 AD. Thus, the probability that the mosaics of Khirbet Muqa, Murik and Qumhane were made by the same workshop is consolidated, not only by the internal criteria used to identify a workshop, but also by an external criterion : that of sufficient demand and the financial means to provide for it: in this particular instance, the socio-economic context of pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Jouejati-Madwar, Rafah. “A Mosaicist’s Workshop in Epiphania (Hama, Syria) at the Beginning of the 5th Century.” In La Mosaïque Gréco-Romaine IX, Volume 2 / The Greco-Roman Mosaic IX, Volume 2, 775–84. Collection de l’École Française de Rome 352. Rome: École française de Rome, Palais Farnèse, 2005.
Rafah Jouejati-Madwar, A Mosaicist’s Workshop in Epiphania (Hama, Syria) at the Beginning of the 5th Century, in La Mosaïque Gréco-Romaine IX, Volume 2 / The Greco-Roman Mosaic IX, Volume 2, Collection de l’École Française de Rome 352 (Rome: École française de Rome, Palais Farnèse, 2005), 775–84.Byzantine SyriaHamahIV-VII CEV CEarchaeologyartchurchesmosaics