Transliterated Name | Source | Name |
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Tell Ya'amun |
Tell Ya'amun is located 25 km. southeast of Irbid. The site has produced evidence of continuous occupation from the Early Bronze
Age through the Islamic periods
(
Rose et al, 2007).
Savage et al (2003:457-458) report the following:
To the south of the previously excavated Byzantine church, we uncovered two rooms with walls surviving to a height of 2 m. Each room has a door opening onto the flat stone pavement that separates these rooms from the church. The mosaic floors are preserved along with the bases of archways for ceiling supports. Coins, architectural stratigraphy, and style of mosaic decoration all indicate contemporaneity between the sixth-century church and rooms. The rooms were modified during the Umayyad period when the mosaic floor was repaired with flat paving stones along the damaged edges and some walls were reconstructed with differently sized stones. Further modification and re-use occurred during the Ayyubid-Mamluk period when new walls were built directly on top of the mosaic floors. The mosaic floor of the east room is extensively dented by collapsed wall stones, which suggests that use ended with destruction caused by an earthquake.
Effect | Location | Figure | Comments |
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Dented Floor suggesting wall collapse | East room of Byzantine church
Location Map
Tell Ya'amun 2002 Excavations website |
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Effect | Location | Figure | Comments | Intensity |
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Dented Floor suggesting wall collapse | East room of Byzantine church
Location Map
Tell Ya'amun 2002 Excavations website |
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VIII+ |
Rose et al (2007), Trade the Acquisition of Wealth in Rural Late Antique North Jordan, SHAJ 9 - mentions Tell Ya'amun but does not mention earthquakes
Savage, S., K. Zamora, and D. Keller (2003). "Archaeology in Jordan, 2002 Season." Am. J. Archaeol. 107: 449–475.
Turshan and Nassar (2011), A Mosaic of the Book of Daniel in the Ya!'mun Church, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 51 (2011) 340–349 - no mention of earthquakes
Jordan Excavations including Tell Ya'amun from Dr. Jordan Rose
Tell Ya'amun 2002 excavations from Dr. Jordan Rose
Tell Ya’amun 2004 Excavations from Dr. Jordan Rose -
notes that the wine-press seems to have been destroyed by earthquakes
but does not provide dates