Eboda; Oboda; 'Avdat; Abda (Southern church) - ST. THEODORE

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Source of knowledge
Epigraphy
Archaeological remains
Surveyed site
Surveyors: 
NameDate
Palmer
1870
Musil
1902
Jaussen, Savignac and Vincent
1904
Woolley and Lawrence
1914
Wiegand
1916
Excavated site
Excavators: 
NameDate
Negev
1959-1961
State of certainty: 
Archaeologicaly definitive
Architectural evolution
General outline: 
Constructed in the fifth century CE. The monastery that occupied a complex of rooms on the southern and western sides of the atrium was founded sometime later. The exact foundation date is not known.
Phase date
Century: 
5th c.
General outline: 
Oboda was destroyed in the Arab conquest in 636 CE.
Dating material: 

The remains of the southern church and monastery show signs of destruction including charred remains of wooden beams.

 

Phase date
Century: 
7th c.
Within century: 
First half
Post Arab conquest history: 
Abandoned