{"id":5848,"date":"2019-09-24T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=5848"},"modified":"2025-11-09T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:24:43","slug":"architecture7","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/portfolio-item\/architecture7\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstructed Opus Sectile Floor Patterns of the Crusader Era (12th Cent. CE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6715\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6715\" class=\"wp-image-6715\" src=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Crus-Opus-1-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Crus-Opus-1-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Crus-Opus-1-450x364.jpg 450w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Crus-Opus-1.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opus Sectile Floor Tiles from the Crusader Era<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unlike their Herodian counterpart, these tiles were cut from local stone, in units based on the inch. These tiles decorated the floors in the Dome of the Rock which was converted into a church &#8211; the Templum Domini during this period. Here, we have reconstructed floor patterns based on tiles found in the sifting. Similar patterns can be seen to this day in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and in the Dome of the Rock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6728\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6728\" class=\"wp-image-6728\" src=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Opus-Sectile-Crusader-module-1-1-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Opus-Sectile-Crusader-module-1-1-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Opus-Sectile-Crusader-module-1-1-450x364.jpg 450w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Opus-Sectile-Crusader-module-1-1.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Second Reconstructed Floor Pattern<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For further reading:<\/p>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">F. Snyder, G. Barkay, and Z. Dvira, \u2018Reconstruction of Crusader Floors in the Dome of the Rock Based on Picturesque Palestine Illustrations and Finds from the Temple Mount Sifting Project\u2019, in <i>Exploring the Holy Land: 150 Years of the Palestine Exploration Fund<\/i>, ed. by David Gurevich and Anat Kidron (Sheffield: Equinox, 2019)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    Opus Sectile Floor Tiles from the Crusader Era<\/p>\n<p>Unlike their Herodian counterpart, these tiles were cut from local stone, in units based on the inch. These tiles decorated the floors in the Dome of the Rock which was converted into a church &#8211; the Templum Domini during this period. Here, we have reconstructed floor patterns based on tiles found in the sifting. Similar patterns can be seen to this day in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and in the Dome of the Rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":6729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[379],"portfolio_entries":[378,363],"class_list":["post-5848","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-architecture","portfolio_entries-architecture","portfolio_entries-virtual-museum"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/5848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/5848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11354,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/5848\/revisions\/11354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}