Nessana - Northern slope monastery church

Columns and piers: 

According to the reconstruction, the chapel and its adjacent buildings were not colonnaded.

Columns: 
Components of entablatures, arches and apses: 

Voussoir stones of the lateral rooms were found.

lintels, jambs, thresholds

Lintels, jambs, thresholds: 

A lintel decorated with a relief of a cross flanked with rosettes, was found nearby in the monastery atrium and was re-used as a building stone in a later wall from the Early Arab period. This lintel stone probably adorned the entrance into the chapel. It is said, that at the corners of the cross at the center of the lintel, the Greek letters ρ-χ, α-ω were carved, though they are not very well discernible. Usually this abbreviation symbolizes that Jesus Christ is the beginning and the end of life. In the entrance to Room 9, fragments of a lintel made of limestone were found. These were covered with several lines of a Greek inscription, mentioning the Byzantine Emperor Tiberius II (578-582 CE). Probably, this lintel, reused in the building of the Islamic period, originally belonged to the monastery, and thus we have a date for its construction.

Typology
Lintels, jambs, thresholds: 
Lintels
Central pattern on lintel: 
Medallion
Cross
Lateral patterns: 
Six-petal rosette(s)
Materials of lintels, jambs, thresholds: 
Limestone
Lintels and jambs: 
Chancel screen posts: 

According to the reconstruction, there were four posts on the bema.

Typology
Types: 
Non specified type
Chancel Screen posts materials: 
Marble
Chancel screen plates: 

According to the reconstruction, there were two panels hold by four posts. Segments of the marble panels were preserved in situ.

Typology
Types: 
Blind
Decoration (Central motif): 
Laurel wreath
Decoration (Lateral patterns): 
Tendrils
Chancel Screen plates materials: 
Marble
Chancel Screen plates: 
Altar legs: 

The members of the ciborium columns or altar legs were found scattered in the bema (probably, marble).

Typology
Altar legs: 
Shaft
Altar legs Materials: 
Limestone
Altar plates: 
The stones of the altar table were found scattered at the foot of the bema, with a few fragments of the ciborium columns and/or legs of the altar table beside them (probably, marble).
Typology
Type: 
Rectangular (angulus)
Decoration: 
with molded edges
Altar plates (mensae) materials: 
Marble
Altar plates (mensae): 
Decorative reliefs: 

In the middle line on the chapel floor, near the bema, three small crosses were found carved on the floor slabs. A tomb was found underneath, carved into the bedrock and the walls were covered with plaster. Skeletons of three adults were laid westward with their heads and eastward with their legs (booted into the leather sandals). They were laid on the bed of Pupulus Euphratica leaves, which grows in the Negev.

Decorative reliefs materials: 
Limestone
Decorative reliefs: 
Ciborium: 

Two of the cavities of the four columns of the ciborium, which stood above the altar table, were entirely preserved. The base and a fragment of the stem of the ciborium's round column (20 cm D) were found in situ in one of these (probably, marble; not indicated in the report).

Typology
Ciborium : 
Shaft
Base
Pavement: 

The atrium was paved with a coarse white mosaic. The chapel floor was preserved intact. It was made of well-dressed, hard limestone slabs laid on a cement bed in ten parallel lines along the length of the chapel.

The entrance room's floor, the floor of the bema were revetted with the slabs of well-dressed hard limestone.

Typology
Pavement: 
Slabs
Pavement materials: 
Limestone
Liturgical objects materials: 
Other
Liturgical objects: 
Near the chord of the apse, the fragments of two glass chalices were found, used as a calix in the liturgy held in the chapel. One of them was completely restored and its diameter measures 11.50 cm, height 15 cm.
Liturgical objects: 
Other: 

Apart from the tomb in front of the bema, more one burial of the woman's skeleton was found in the northwest room.