According to the Colt's expedition plan, there were sixteen columns in the basilica, with the pilasters supporting the rhythm of the main colonnades attached to the eastern wall and with the long protrusions attached to the western wall (built of ashlar), two columns in the baptistery with the coordinated pilasters. Also on the plan two columns were marked with the line in the apse. The lathe-made drums varied in height between 0.30 and 0.40 m. Only one drum (0.53 m D) was tooled with narrow vertical strokes of an adze or chisel, which gave it an effect of flutes. There are two exceptional shafts found in the church. One of them was carved from Proconessian marble. It was found broken in Room 10. Its measurements -- 3.50 m high, 0.465 m in diameter near the apophyge inferior and 0.410 m near the apophyge superior. The diminution is rather steep. The other column which was comprised from three drums with the diameter of 0.39 cm, found scattered in the church. They were covered with a "fish-scale" pattern in black-and-white tones. Some "scales" were painted in red though. Below the bema floor and covered by it at a depth of 0.40 m two circular impressions in cement beds with the diameter of 0.55 m were found. They are apparently were left by the columns that preceded the marble revetment of the bema.
The columns in every case, except the westernmost in the south arcade and those on the bema which have no separate bases, were leaning on square limestone blocks ca. 0.15 m high. Half of the bases being below floor level. The columns average diameter at their base was 0.53 m.
The capitals were of a very simple type. The core is widening towards abacus, which are square (its height fluctuated between 7-10 cm). The decoration consists of horizontal lines and moldings of different height, including slanting surfaces and sometimes ovolo and twisted rope pattern. There are no two identical capitals. The one exception, carved in limestone, is a capital of a typical Nabatean shape (blocked-out with diagonal billets for volutes). Probably, it was reused Roman spolia. The capitals fluctuate in their diameter from 0.44 to 0.54 m. The Corinthian capital of the was found in the east gallery
The partition between the Rooms 14 and 16 was comprised by several arches, decorated with the dog-tooth pattern, or chevron.
There was a notable absence of carved caps and bases of door-jambs, which usually found. Some of the lateral rooms are covered with arcuated pilasters, leaning on the plain caps.
lintels, jambs, thresholds
Limestone lintel found scattered in the entrance hall was decorated with the round medallion with the incised cross. The motifs are very simple and the lintel is worth of attention mostly because of the Greek inscription.
According to the Colt's expedition reconstruction, there were four posts in the main bema, used together with the easternmost bay of the colonnades, and four posts in the northern chapel.
According to the Colt's expedition reconstruction, there were six panels in the main chancel screen and two in the northern chapel. The lateral panels of the main screen are very long, if to believe the reconstruction. No slots are preserved in the bema, though several fragments of the panels were found nearby. Fragments of a marble screen panel were found in the dump below the hill to the east from the North church and probably they were originated from it. It is adorned with the inscription. The surface is decorated in a traditional manner. The long panel was divided into two fields, with, probably, similar compositions, that are preserved only partially. The right filed is decorated with the Maltese cross, added by the fleaurs-de-lis patterns between the arms. The cross is flanked by the branch with two pomegranates from the left side and by the wheel with six spokes. The left field is less preserved and only a wheel is visible. The other three fragments are very small, only parts of the profiled frames and few letters from the Greek inscriptions are preserved.
The ambo was hexagonal and stood near the north-west corner of the bema, where the impression in the floor were left.
In the apse a stone base of the bishop's throne was preserved. At one of its side, in the paving, a carved stone was found. It was decorated with the interlacing grape's branches and inhabited by birds (now in the Rockfeller's museum exposition).
The south church was paved with limestone, as well as Rooms 9,10.
In its final state the church was provided with a marble floor in which various geometrical compositions were laid in opus sectile technique, using such materials as porphyry, slate, and fine yellow limestone. The bema had been damaged, but enough remained to prove that it had been paved with marble tiles also. The floors of the chapel, baptistery room and the font itself were also revetted. Some of the revetment panels reached 2 m in length.
The Colt expedition reported the burials of two Germans from World War I in the Room 13, which is attached to the church. Not applicable any more during the Urman's expedition. After the Colt expedition Ben Gurion expedition has found six Byzantine burials in the Room 14, two burials in the Room 16.