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Tell Ya'amun

Aerial View of Gath Tell Ya'amun

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Names

Transliterated Name Source Name
Tell Ya'amun
Introduction
Introduction

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).

Maps, Aerial Views, and Plans
Maps, Aerial Views, and Plans

Maps and Aerial Views

  • Location Map from Tell Ya'amun 2002 Excavations website
  • Tell Ya'amun in Google Earth

Plans

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Chronology
Earthquake

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.

Seismic Effects
Earthquake

Effect Location Figure Comments
Dented Floor suggesting wall collapse East room of Byzantine church
  • 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 - Savage et al (2003:457-458)

Intensity Estimates
Earthquake

Effect Location Figure Comments Intensity
Dented Floor suggesting wall collapse East room of Byzantine church
  • 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 - Savage et al (2003:457-458)
VIII+
The archeoseismic evidence requires a minimum Intensity of VIII (8) when using the Earthquake Archeological Effects chart of Rodríguez-Pascua et al (2013: 221-224)

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