Ascalon (Agamim neighborhood) - Er Rasm

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Monastery name, type, category

Site Name:

Ascalon (Agamim neighborhood)

Monastery name:

Er Rasm

Monastery type:

Laura

Monastery category:

Para Urban

Location

Coordinates, ITM system:

108,955.00

1,117,145.00

Coordinates, ICS system:

158,948.00

617,145.00

Geographical region:

Southern Coastal Plain

Provincial affiliation:

Palaestina I

Bishopric:

Ascalon

Topographical location:

South of Ascalon Agamin neighborhood, on a site slated to become Ashkelon Eco-Sport complex and lake, ca. 2 km southeast of Tel Ashkelon..

Soils:

Sands

Distance from nearest bishop-seat:

Ca. 2km.

Distance from nearest settlement:

In the immediat rural periphery of Ascalon, Ca. 2km.

Distance from Roman roads:

Near a track connected with the main Gaza-Ashdod road.

Source of knowledge

Archaeological remains

Excavated site

Excavators:

Name	Date
Erickson-Gini	2019

Bibliograpy:

Erickson-Gini, T., 2021

Abbreviation for Journals and Series

State of certainty:

Uncertain / Questionable

General description

State of preservation/which parts were uncovered:

The assumed monastic complex included a kiln for producing the latest form of Gaza wine jars, the remains of a storeroom with dried jars ready for firing, three winepresses, and scant remains of a church.

Illustrative material:

Illustrative_material

General description

Enclosing walls:

No enclosing walls were recorded.

Churche/s:

A rectangular structure south of the winepresses - mainly fragments of architectural members, mosaic tesserae and few bases in situ were found between the warehouses and the winepresses, to their south. No traces of an apse. The building was streeped of its stones in the Abbaside period.

Storage facilities:

Warehouses for the jars fired in the kiln attributed to the monastery.

Agricultural and industrial installations:

A pottery kiln, storehouses for fired jars and three winepresses are attributed to the monastery.

Small finds

Comments, discussion and summary:

The industrial ang agricultural installations could as well be attributed to a farm of an agricultural estate.

Detailed description

Components

Architectural evolution

Phase 1
Abandonment

Dating material:

Pottery.

Phase date

Century:

5th-6th c.

Dating material:

Pottery

Phase date

Century:

7th c.