Rehovot in-the-Negev - Central Church

Columns and piers: 

The columns of the church were intergral and collected with the drums, which were connected to each other with the dowels. In the fill of the floor under the southern aisle the column drums were found, covered with the painted plaster. They belonged either to the earlier phase of the church or to the Nabatean temple.

Columns and piers materials: 
Limestone
Columns: 
Typology
Columns and piers: 
Comprised of drums
Bases and pedestals: 

Several bases were found and still visible at the site. There were comprised from the lower square plinth and several irregular horizontal profiles, cut on the lathe. Profiles sometimes added with the narrow strips.

Typology
Bases: 
Lathe-made horizontal moldings/strips
Bases and pedestals materials: 
Limestone
Bases: 
Capitals: 

Plain capitals were revealed

Typology
Order: 
Lathe-made horizontal moldings/strips
Components of entablatures, arches and apses: 

The apse was flanked by two rooms, which were situated much lower the general level of the floor. They were roofed with the long ashlars, lying on the arcuated pilasters, which were completely preserved. Voussoir stones were also revealed in the church.

Typology
Components: 
Voussoir
Materials of components of entablatures, arches and apses: 
Limestone
Cornices, spring cornices, voussoirs: 
Pilaster caps and bases: 

Several pilaster caps/bases were found on the site. Some of them were of the plainest pyramydical shape and were undecorated. The others were adorned with the motifs of conchae and stylizied columns, placed in different sequence. The most lavishly decorated pilaster cap was adorned with the complete grooved concha in the central part and two semiconchae on the lateral sides. The conchae were enframed with dentil pattern and adorned with gems/dots in the lower parts. Between the conchae two columns were depicted. On their capitals pair of birds had been sitting, looking inside the composition. The upper and the lower parts of the cap were adorned with narrow horizontal strips. The other one was decorated with the identical composition, but instead of birds, triangular spaces were adorned with the lines, one inside the other. More one cap was preserved only partially. The stylizied arches were leaning on the central motif of column, standing on the stepped base. On the right side of it a concha pattern was preserved partially (probably, symmetrical to the left one depiction).

Pilaster caps materials: 
Limestone
Pilaster caps and bases: 
Typology
Pilaster caps and bases: 
Truncated pyramid (Nabatean type): with relief/painted decoration
Window pans, frames and piers: 

see "section" ciborium (base)

Typology
Window Types: 
Double arched (with a colonnette)
Components: 
Mullion
Chancel screen posts: 

The lateral sides of the bema were separated from the aisles with the high walls, built between the columns. The front side of the bema was separated from the nave with the traditional chancel screen. Nothing was preserved from it. 

Chancel Screen posts materials: 
Limestone
Altar legs: 

After the altar table only the imprints were left in the center of the apse. 

Ciborium: 

In the chancel area the imprints of the ciborium bases were preserved. Besides, the base and the capital from it were found, both carved from marble. The Tuscan base was comprised with the square low plinth, angular torus and a lower part of the drum, all carved from one piece of stone. The traces of the claw chiseling are traceable. The Corinthian capital was decorated with one ragne of soft acanthus leaves: four of them comprised the corners, another four decorated the frontal sides. The central leaves were curling in the upper part. The acanthus range was topped with the abacus, the sides of which were concave. The narrow horizontal groove separated the abacus into two parts. Each side was also adorned with the fleurons in the center.

Typology
Ciborium : 
Shaft
Base
Ciborium materials: 
Marble
Ciborium: 
Revetment plates: 

The chancel area was paved with the marble slabs, which were partially preserved in situ. 

Typology
Revetment: 
Marble slabs
Revetment plates materials: 
Marble