Ramla : Studies in History, Archaeology and Architecture.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pringle, Denys.

Pringle, Denys, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ramla

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2021.

Summary:

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the history, archaeology and architecture of the city of Ramla from the time of its foundation as the capital of Umayyad Palestine around 715 until the end of Ottoman rule in 1917.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright page

Contents Page

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Chapter 1

Early Islamic Ramla (715-1099)

Robert Hoyland

Chapter 2

The Crusader Town and Lordship of Ramla (1099-1268)

Peter Edbury

Figure 2.1. Seal of Baldwin of Ramla (d. 1138), as used by his successor, Hugh of Ibelin, lord of Ramla, Mirabel and Ibelin, 'because he had no seal of his own,' to authenticate his authorization of a land sale his vassal, Ralph, to the abbey of St Mary i

Figure 2.2. Seal of Baldwin of Ibelin, lord of Ramla and Mirabel (d. c.1188), appended to a charter of 1175 (from Schlumberger, Chalandon and Blanchet 1943: 54, pl. XVIII.4

cf. Paoli 1733: I, 58, pl. II.21

CGOH, I, 322-3, no. 470).

Figure 2.3. Genealogy of the lords of Ramla (indicated by capital letters). Dashed lines indicate conjectural relationships.

Chapter 3

Ramla in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods (1187-1516)

D. S. Richards

Chapter 4

Ramla in the Ottoman Period (1516-1917)

Matthew Elliot

Figure 4.1. Ramla, from the north-west, showing the road from Jaffa entering the city with the minaret of the White Mosque to the right, as illustrated in Giovanni Zuallardo (Jan Zvallart), Il devotissimo viaggio di Gerusalemme, fatto, e descritto in sei

Figure 4.2. Ramla from the south-east in 1682, as illustrated in Corneille le Brun (Cornelis De Bruyn), Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure dans les Isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypre &amp

c., de même que dans les pl.

Figure 4.3. Ramla from the north-west in 1682, as illustrated in Corneille le Brun (Cornelis De Bruyn), Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure dans les Isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypre &amp

c., de même que dans les pl

Table 4.1. Numbers of Muslim and Christian households in Ramla in the 16th Century.

Table 4.2. The Population of Ramla and Jaffa in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Table 4.3. Population estimates for the districts of Ramla and Jaffa made by the French consulate in Jerusalem in 1847.

Chapter 5

Excavations in Ramla, 1990-2018: Reconstructing the Early Islamic City

Gideon Avni

Figure 5. 1. Ramla: plan of the Early Islamic city, showing its extent and the location of the principal excavations (© IAA).

Figure 5.2. Ramla: excavations south of the White Mosque (© IAA).

Figure 5.3 Ramla: the White Mosque and excavations south of it, seen from the air looking south (© IAA).

Figure 5.4. Ramla: plan of excavated area (B3) south of the White Mosque (© IAA).

Figure 5.5. Ramla: excavation of a late 8th-century building in area B3, south of the While Mosque (© IAA).

Figure 5.6. Ramla: lustre-painted glassware (9th-10th-century) from a vault south of the White Mosque (© IAA).

Figure 5.7a. Ramla: plan of a residential quarter (area C), south of the White Mosque: 8th-9th-century phases (© IAA).

Figure 5.7b. Ramla: plan residential quarter (area C), south of the White Mosque: 10th-11th-century phases (© IAA).

Figure 5.8. Ramla: fragments of mosaic floor in a late 8th-century building in Area C (© IAA).

Figure 5.9. Ramla: fragment of a mosaic floor of the 10th-11th century in Area C2 (© IAA).

Figure 5.10. Ramla: octagonal pool with fountain in a building of the 10th-11th century in Area C5 (© IAA).

Figure 5.11. Pottery figurine (9th-10th century) (© IAA).

Figure 5.12. Ramla: mosaic floor in a house of the 10th-11th century in Area E (© IAA).

Figure 5.13. Ramla: detail of mosaic floor in a house of the 10th-11th century in Area E (© IAA)

Figure 5.14. Ramla: 10th-century mosaic floor decorated with depictions of animals (© IAA).

Figure 5.15. Ramla: underground silos in the north-east of the city (© IAA).

Figure 5.17. Ramla: monumental inscription commemorating the construction of a bridge by Muḥammad ibn Ṭugh Abū Bakr al-Ikhshīd after 935 (© IAA)

Figure 5.16. Ramla: underground silo in the north-east of the city (© IAA).

Figure 5.18. Ramla: jars smashed during the 749 earthquake in the southern area of the city (image: after Gorzalzcany 2009b: fig. 9).

Figure 5.19. Ramla

building constructed in ashlar in the southern part of the city in the 9-10th century (image: after Gorzalzcany et al. 2010: fig. 3).

Figure 5.20. Ramla, southern area: marble elements, perhaps from a Byzantine church, in secondary use (image: Gorzalzcany 2010: fig. 5).

Figure 5.21. Ramla, Birkat al-ʿAnaziyya (Pool of the Arches): interior (© IAA).

Figure 5.22. Ramla, Birkat al-ʿAnaziyya (Pool of the Arches): exposed vaulting seen from above (© IAA).

Figure 5.23. Ramla, Birkat al-ʿAnaziyya (Pool of the Arches): plan and section (© IAA).

Figure 5.24. Ramla: a typical water cistern (© IAA).

Figure 5.25. Early Islamic sites identified in the hinterland of Ramla (© IAA).

Chapter 6

The Gezer Aqueduct to Umayyad Ramla

Amir Gorzalczany

Figure 6.1. The course of the aqueduct from Gezer to Ramla as revealed by excavations and surveys: (1) surveyed by Kaplan and Gophna (1950)

(2) surveyed by Zelinger and Shmueli

(3) excavated by Gorzalczany (2001)

(4) excavated by Toueg (2008)

(5) exca

Chapter 7.

World War I Aerial Photographs of Ramla

Benjamin Z. Kedar

Figure 7.1. Ramla from the north-west, 3 December 1917 (Erich Steiner's Collection).

Figure 7.2. Ramla, 6 March 1918. The photo was taken from the south-east

to facilitate comparison with Fig. 7.1, it has been turned upside down (München, Kriegsarchiv, Palästina-Bilder, no. 184 [new no. 313]).

Figure 7.3-4. Ramla from the north-east, 27 November 1917 (partial enlargement of München, Kriegsarchiv, Palästina-Bilder, no. 180b [new no. 306]), with graphic representation of the ovoid block appearing in the photograph.

Figure 7.5. Ramla from the north-east, 25 November 1917 (partial enlargement of Munich, Kriegsarchiv, Palästina-Bilder, no. 183 [new no. 323]).

Figure 7.6-7. Ramla from the north-east, 26 June 1918 (partial enlargement of München, Kriegsarchiv, Palästina-Bilder, no. 181c [new no. 310]), with graphic representation of the ovoid block appearing in the photograph.

Figure 7.8 Ramla: Franciscan convent, illustrated by Ladislaus Mayr (1748-52). The legend, appearing on fols 66-7, reads: (1) ist der Eingang des Klösterleins

(2) die Kapellen des heil[igen] Joseph von Arimathea

(3) eine kleine Kirche

(4) die Zellen de

Figure 7.9 Ramla: View from the north-west by Ladislaus Mayr (1748-52) (Reisbeschreibung, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Cgm 2967, fol. 65r). Reproduced by permission of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Chapter 8

Muslim Buildings

Andrew Petersen

Figure 8.1. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1): plan of the complex (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.2. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1): east-west section through rooms 1-4 (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.3. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1): south-north section through the tomb chamber (room 4) and room 5, with elevation of minaret, looking west (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.4. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1): elevation of south façade of the complex (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.5. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1): interior courtyard, before 1948 (PAM: neg. 5298, © IAA).

Figure 8.6. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1): cenotaph of Abū Faḍl (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.10. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1), mausoleum of Shaykh Mu'ayyad (room 3): detail of cypress tree motif on pendentive, moulded in relief and painted red (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.7. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1): detail of strapwork decoration around the base of the cenotaph of Abū Faḍl, viewed from above (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.8. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1), mausoleum of Abū Faḍl: inner face of the dome (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.9. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1), mausoleum of Shaykh Muʾayyad (room 3): interior showing the cenotaph and base of the dome (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.11. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1), mausoleum of Shaykh Mu'ayyad (room 3): detail of Ottoman flag motif on pendentive, moulded in relief and painted red (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.12. Jāmiʿ Abū Faḍl (no. 1): folded cross-vaulted room (2) adjoining the mausoleum of Shaykh Mu'ayyad. The blocked window originally opened on to the tomb (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.13. Jāmiʿ al-Huzayfa (no. 2): plan of complex (south to the top), with adjacent house (MOS 1993).

Figure 8.14. Jāmiʿ al-Huzayfa (no. 2): east-west section A-A (looking south) through the complex (MOS 1993).

Figure 8.15. Jāmiʿ al-Huzayfa (no. 2): north-south section B-B (looking west) through the complex (MOS 1993).

Figure 8.16. Jāmiʿ al-Huzayfa (no. 2): plan and elevations of the minaret (MOS 1993).

Figure 8.17. Jāmiʿ al-Huzayfa (no. 2): view of minaret before 1948 (PAM: neg. 27234, © IAA).

Figure 8.18. Jāmiʿ al-Zaytūnī (no. 3): view of the entrance and minaret from south (MOS 1992).

Figure 8.19. Jāmiʿ al-Zaytūnī (no. 3): view of the east bay of the prayer hall before 1948 (PAM: neg. 5568, © IAA).

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ISBN:

9781789697773

1789697778

OCLC:

1267765753