Guidoboni and Comastri (2005)
suggest that the Venetian writer
Marino Sanudo the Elder
drew upon
William of Tyre
as his source when he recorded that
in 1114 a huge earthquake
shook the Orient, especially in
Cilicia, where it damaged
Mamistra and all the
fortifications round about
.
Sanudo further wrote that
elsewhere other cities were
destroyed, so that no trace of the temple remained, and men
wandering through the fields were afraid that they would be
sucked down by the earth
. This latter statement concerning
wandering men may reflect ongoing aftershocks.
Lock (2016: 8) suggests that
Marino Sanudo the Elder likely had access to an earlier version
of
William of Tyre’s chronicle
than the one that survives today.