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Madaba
Madaba (; Biblical Hebrew: Mēḏəḇāʾ; ) is the capital city of Madaba Governorate in central Jordan, with a population of about 60,000. It is best known for its Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics, especially a large Byzantine-era mosaic map of the Holy Land. Madaba is located south-west of the capital Amman.
Mount Nebo
mountain in Jordan
Madaba Map
6th-century mosaic map of Palestine
Martorana
church in Palermo, Italy
Bir el Qutt inscriptions
Georgian language Byzantine mosaic
Torcello Cathedral
church in Venice, Italy
Beiteddine Palace
building in Lebanon
Gaza synagogue
ancient synagogue
Great Palace Mosaic Museum
museum
Beth Alpha synagogue
Sixth-century CE synagogue
Hama,Taybat al-Imam
city in Syria
Museum of Mosaics (Devnya)
museum in Devnya
Byzantine mosaics
sacred art that uses mosaic in places of worship, between the 6th and 15th centuries in the Byzantine Empire
Al-Qalis Church
Oriental Orthodox church building in Sanaa, Yemen
Panagia tis Angeloktistis
byzantine church in Cyprus
Khirbet es-Samra
archaeological site in northern Jordan
micromosaic
thumb|250px|Micromosaic brooch set in black glass, c. 1875, of the Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon thumb|250px|Byzantine mosaic icon, 45 cm high, 13th century. Micromosaics (or micro mosaics, micro-mosaics) are a special form of mosaic that uses unusually small mosaic pieces (tesserae) of glass, or in later Italian pieces an enamel-like material, to make small figurative images. Surviving ancient Roman mosaics include some very finely worked panels using very small tesserae, especially from Pompeii, but only from Byzantine art are there mosaic icons in micromosaic with tesserae as small as the best fr
Maon Synagogue
6th-century synagogue and archaeological site in the Negev Desert
Mosaic of Rehob
inscribed mosaic discovered in Tel Rehov
Kelenderis mosaic
6th c CE mosaic in Aydincik, Turkey
Monreale Cathedral mosaics
mosaics at Monreale Cathedral in Sicily