Name: Mosque ID 43 from Asia/Palestinian Authority/Khirbat al-Mafjar
Published: 2021-11-14
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
State	Israel/Palestine
City/site	Khirbat al-Mafjar
Mosque name	Mosque II
Primary reference	Hamilton, R.W., 1959. Khirbat al-Mafjar. An Arabian Mansion in the Jordan Valley, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Additional reference I	Whitcomb, Donald, 2016. “The Mosques of Mafjar: A Sequence and Some Implications for Understanding Qasr Hisham”, in: Denis Genequand (ed.), Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, vol. 2, Islamic Archaeology, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 469-478.
Latitude	31.8825
Longitude	35.459722
Location: exact/approximate	exact
Basis for mosque identification (in addition to orientation)	a mihrab
Location within the site: inside the main structure, adjacent to the main structure, isolated	adjacent to the main structure
A general layout: a single hall, two-three halls, complex, a qibla wall alone	two halls
Size of the mosque (in m)	17.123.6 / 1932
A mihrab is present	yes
The internal form of the mihrab: square/semicircular/horseshoe	semicircular
The mihrab projects/is situated inside the wall	projects
Pavement of the mihrab walls: plaster, flagstones	plaster
Colonnettes flank the mihrab	yes
A courtyard is present	?
An evidence for columns or piers exists	yes

Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
מספר	43
מדינה	ישראל/פלסטין
עיר/אתר	ח'רבת אל-מפג'ר
שם המסגד	מסגד ב'
הפניה 1	Hamilton, R.W., 1959. Khirbat al-Mafjar. An Arabian Mansion in the Jordan Valley, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
הפניה 2	Whitcomb, Donald, 2016. “The Mosques of Mafjar: A Sequence and Some Implications for Understanding Qasr Hisham”, in: Denis Genequand (ed.), Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, vol. 2, Islamic Archaeology, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 469-478.
קו רוחב	31.8825
קו אורך	35.459722
מקום: מדויק/משוער	מדויק
הבסיס לזיהוי המסגד הקדום (בנוסף לכיוון המבנה למכה)	מחראב
גודל המסגד (במטרים)	17.123.6 / 1932
ישנו מחראב במבנה	כן

Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
عدد	43
دولة	إسرائيل / فلسطين
المدينة أو الموقع الاثري	خربة المفجر
اسم المسجد	مسجد 2
المصدر الاساسي	Hamilton, R.W., 1959. Khirbat al-Mafjar. An Arabian Mansion in the Jordan Valley, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
مصدر 2	Whitcomb, Donald, 2016. “The Mosques of Mafjar: A Sequence and Some Implications for Understanding Qasr Hisham”, in: Denis Genequand (ed.), Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, vol. 2, Islamic Archaeology, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 469-478.
خط العرض	31.8825
خط الطول	35.459722
تحديد الموقع: دقيق أو تقريبي	دقيق
أسس تحديد المسجد (بالإضافة إلى التوجيه)	محراب
حجم المسجد (بالمتر)	17.123.6 او 1932
المحراب موجود	موجود

Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Creator Vocabulary: DCMI Metadata Terms (Dublin Core Terms)	Hagit Nol info Vocabulary: Early Islamic Mosques Database

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Hagit Nol. (2021) "Mosque ID 43 from Asia/Palestinian Authority/Khirbat al-Mafjar". In Early Islamic Mosques Database. Hagit Nol (Ed). Released: 2021-11-14. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/a67eec65-c5e3-4f80-ac14-b0d3befd091e>

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