AD 570 · 6th century · Madaba and the Holy Land

Madaba mosaic map, Jerusalem detail

Unknown Byzantine mosaicists

A sixth-century church-floor mosaic enlarges Jerusalem into a legible sacred city and destination.

Catalogue record

Cartographer	Unknown Byzantine mosaicists
Medium	Floor mosaic
Repository	Church of Saint George, Madaba
Custody	Held by the repository named above

Looked at and unresolved. Listed so the gap reads as a question somebody asked rather than a field nobody reached.

date: The mosaic is dated to the second half of the sixth century on stylistic and topographical grounds; the year recorded here is a midpoint of that range and not a documented date. The excavation and epigraphic literature on the Church of Saint George pavement, which argues the bounds from the buildings the mosaic does and does not depict.