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Golgotha (mountain)

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The hill outside Jerusalem on which Jesus was crucified

Names

  • Latin: Caluaria 1-4
  • Latin: Golgata 5
  • Syriac: ܓܓܘܠܬܐ = GGWLTʾ 6

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 1 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 2 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 3, 5 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 4 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 6 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Caluaria: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 5, VIII 2. 4. [Latin].
  • 2Caluaria: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), V 27. VI 2. 12. [Latin].
  • 3Caluaria: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XV 1. XVI 1. XXXIII 6. [Latin].
  • 4Caluaria: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 6 passim. [Latin].
  • 5Golgata: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XV 1. [Latin].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 149 [Syriac].
    • Golgotha: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 289 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Golgotha” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17706.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: place categorization and categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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