Basel roll
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The Basel roll is a manuscript containing three administrative documents in Latin from the Carolingian Empire. The documents were composed for Charlemagne during his reign as emperor and the manuscrip
Charlemagne's portrait coinage, which may have been designed for use overseas
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, N I 2, fol. 12r
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, N I 2, fol. 13r
749 Galilee earthquake
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A devastating earthquake known in scientific literature as the Earthquake of 749 struck on January 18, 749, in areas of the Umayyad Caliphate, with the epicenter in Galilee. The most severely affected
Basel roll
…0.63 in) longer. The Memoria attributes the ruined state of the New Church to "the earthquake" (ille terrae motus). This probably refers to the major Galilean earthquake of 749, although more recent earthquakes are known to have struck the region. Al-Ṭabarī records ones in Egypt in AH 180 (AD 796–797) and Cilicia in 187…
Scythopolis (Beit She'an) was one of the cities destroyed in the earthquake of 749.
Ruins of Hippos/Sussita