Mount Scopus (east) - THEODORUS AND CYRIACUS

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Source of knowledge
Archaeological remains
Surveyed site
Surveyors: 
NameDate
Kloner
2000
Excavated site
Excavators: 
NameDate
Amit, Seligman and Zilberbod
1999- 2000
State of certainty: 
Archaeologicaly definitive
Architectural evolution
General outline: 
The monastery was founded in the fifth century CE. The north wing, where the Armenian inscription was located, formed the earliest phase, the halls too belong to this phase
Dating material: 

Architectural considerations

Phase date
Century: 
5th c.
General outline: 
The halls, apparently constructed in the first phase, were repaved with the mosaic bearing the dated inscription, in the sixth century.
Dating material: 

Numismatics

Phase date
Century: 
6th c.
General outline: 
The southern wing consists of more rooms including a bathhouse dated to the early eighth century. Chunks of mosaics and charred wooden beams in this area attest to a second story.
Dating material: 

The Armenian inscription is dated to the late seventh/early eighth century CE. based on numismatic evidence, the bathhouse was either built or renovated during the Abbasid although Umayyad coins found under the floor with the inscription may indicate that the work started earlier, i.e. in the second half of the seventh century.

Phase date
Century: 
7th-8th c.
Iconoclastic evidence
Iconoclastic evidence: 
No
General outline: 
The monastery was destroyed and abandoned in the Abbasid period.
Phase date
Century: 
8th-9th c.
Post Arab conquest history: 
Still in use
Post conquest history comments: 
The site was destroyed and abandoned in the Abbasid period. Charred wooden beams attest to a conflagration.