18397 - Bir Abu Jureida - church (?)

Church Name, type, function

Site Name:

Bir Abu Jureida

Church name:

church (?)

Functional Type:

Unknown

Church type:

Unknown

Location

Coordinates, ITM system:

126.68

1,074.24

Geographical region:

North-Western Negev

Distance from nearest settlement:

Ca. 5km to the NW of Beer Sheba center.

Provincial affiliation:

Palaestina I

Bishopric:

Gaza

Source of knowledge

Archaeological remains

Surveyed site

History:

Remains of mosaic floor found to the west of the road leading from Hebron Hils to Beer Sheba, in the course of works of adaptation of an ancient well. It might had belonged to a narthex of a church.

Bibliograpy:

Bagatti, B., 1983	83
Ovadiah, R. and Ovadiah, A., 1987	no. 53
Tsafrir, Y., Di Segni, L. and Green, J., 1994	89
Bagatti, B., 2002	87

Abbreviation for Journals and Series

General description

Description

Small finds

Architectural Evolution

Phase no.	Century
Phase 1	Early Christian / Byzantine
Abandonment	Unknown