Mahmoud Arinat

Mahmoud Arinat
University of Jordan | UJ · Faculty of Archaeology and Tourism

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The site of Madaba in middle Jordan has many churches from the Byzantine period. In the church of the Virgin Mary, dated to between the end of the Sixth and the beginning of the Seventh Centuries A.D, we uncovered one of the most impressive and best-preserved mosaic pavements with geometric patterns in the Near East. In this paper, the writers atte...
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This paper presents spectroscopic results from ancient Nabateans egg-shell pottery remains excavated from the ancient site of Khirbet al – Dharih; it belongs to the first century AD. FTIR spectroscopy, SEM-EDX-, OM-, and XRD methods were used in the analyses of both colored and uncolored parts of the sherds. All were applied in order to estimate th...
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ABSTRACT The present study intends to assess the performances of two kinds of ancient mortar in the Church of the Holy Cross Gerasa in Jordan. The conservation of ancient construction requires a worthy characterization of the most significant mortar components before starting the conservation, after the results obtained, and during the restoration...
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This current article is focused on the characterization of the preparatory mortar layers and tesserae from the mosaic floor of the Hippolytus Hall at Madaba, located in southwest Jordan. The chemical analysis of the ancient mosaic mortar and tesserae can provide valuable data regarding the an-cient materials and technological processes applied for...
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HIRBET YAJUZ in central Jordan, a bath dating to the Byzantine period, has been found to contain impressive and well-preserved mosaics. The Yajuz mosaicists expertly combined motifs with a long tradition, some going back to the Roman imperial age and earlier, and at the same time created designs that appear here for the first time. This study is co...
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The aim of this study is to understand the contribution of online archaeological databases to research and heritage protection in Jordan. To achieve this a specific set of data was collected by means of a questionnaire survey distributed to archaeologists working in Jordan. A total of 107 researchers completed the form. The results of the survey we...
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This study aims to diagnose the current conservation state of the mosaic floor of the virgin church in Madaba in Jordan, and to identify the mosaic materials as well as the deterioration forms on the mosaic floor. To achieve these objectives, several investigation and analysis methods were used, such as: visual and optical examination, Scanning Ele...
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Jordan's handicrafts have great potential in playing an effective role in the development of economy in general and the tourism sector in particular through creation of employment, economic growth and poverty alleviation, as well as playing an important role in preserving local traditions. Handicrafts require simple techniques, local raw materials...
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The finding of considerable remains of glass mosaic floors, together with great stone mosaic floors dated back to Byzantine period ( 6th to 7th century A.D) from the Cross Church at the Jerash/Jerasa archaeological site in northern Jordan represented a strange phenomenon (glass mosaic).The chemical analysis of ancient glass mosaic tesserae can prov...
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The methodology for the conservation of the mosaic floor of the byzantine bath in Khirbet Yajuz in Jordan is presented. The mosaic was discovered in 1998, and needed urgent protection measures. Both optical investigation and analytical examination of mosaic samples were carried out by stereo optical microscopy and XRD, and both revealed that the te...

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