12690 |
'Attil (Deir ʻAttil) |
Church |
Samaria Hills |
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13314 |
'Ein ed-Dirweh |
St. Philip? |
Judean Hills |
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12905 |
'Ein el Hanniya |
Church |
Judean Hills |
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12933 |
'Ein el Ma'amudieh |
Chapel |
Hebron Hills |
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13375 |
'Ein el-Skhaniya - CAPARBARICHA (?) |
Chapel |
Hebron Hills |
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12955 |
'Ein Fara (Monastery of Pharan) |
Chapel |
Judean Desert |
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12990 |
'Ein Hajla (Monastery of Calamon) |
Church |
Southern Jordan Valley |
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12695 |
'Ein Ḥarun |
Chapel |
Samaria Hills |
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2987 |
'Evron |
Church |
Western Galilee |
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Quadrangular chapel |
A chapel with a screen was attached to the church on the south. Its eastern end was not preserved, hence its quadrangular shape is just assumed. It might have been apsidal as well. The chapel was separated from the southern aisle by a row of pilasters or columns; not by a continuous wall. Five pedestals marking their existence were preserved. |
Tripartite |
The baptistery was a three units complex annexed to the basilica on the north. The three rooms were of different dimensions.
The term "baptisterion" is first mentioned in a Greek inscription in the westernmost unit dated to 415 CE. "Two diakonika" are mentioned in another inscription, dated to 433 CE, found in the middle unit, where a baptismal font was also uncovered. Another inscription, mentioning the pavement of the "diakonikon", of the same date, was found in the NW corner of the N aisle of the basilica. A fourth inscription of the same date but from the eastern unit, mentions the renovation of the "photisterion" (= baptistery). It seems that the annexed complex on the north had served as a baptistery from the beginning. |
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17859 |
Abassan el-Kebir (Sheikh Ibrahim) |
Church |
Gaza strip |
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17862 |
Abu Baraqeh (Deir el-Balah) |
Church |
Gaza strip |
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12617 |
Abu Juweiid |
Church |
Shephelah |
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19414 |
al-ʻAraj; Bethsaida |
Church |
Golan Heights |
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4199 |
Alumma |
Church |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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Quadrangular chapel |
An elongated quadrangular chapel of three units was exposed north of the main building (probably a baptismal chapel). It was paved with a mosaic floor of geometric patterns that included two inscriptions noting the construction of the baptistery (photisterion). The square, graded font, cut below floor level, was revealed at the eastern end of the chapel, off center. |
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14446 |
Apollonia; Sozousa; Reshef; Arsuf |
Basilica |
Sharon |
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19613 |
Ascalon (Agamim neighborhood) |
Er Rasm |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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14828 |
Ascalon (Newe Yam) |
Funerary Chapel |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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12619 |
Ascalon (Tel) |
Center |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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4852 |
Ascalon (Tel) |
East Church (Saint Mary the Green?) |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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12618 |
Ascalon (Tel) |
Northern Church |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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4201 |
Ascalon (Tel) |
South Church |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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11973 |
Ascalon Barnea |
Barnea |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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Quadrangular chapel |
Only the northern rectangular chapel, 10.4x6m in dimensions (with no apse) and a vestibule to its west, extending south towards the narthex, were uncovered. This hall is dubbed in inscr. no. 1 of Tzaferis (1971) diakonikon, speaking about its construction from the foundations, and its paving. The inscription, in a square frame, was found in the center of the hall. Inscr. no. 3 of Tzaferis, dated to 493/4 CE, was found in the narthex, in front of the entrance to the hall. It speaks about the construction and paving of the narthex.
V. Michel (2004) is also of the opinion that this structure was a northern annex of a lost basilical church. |
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4156 |
Ascalon Barnea |
Barnea North; (Nahal Evtah) |
Southern Coastal Plain |
see under baptistery |
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Simple rectangular room |
The baptistery, oriented east – west (4.5 × 9.0 m), was attached to the wall of the northern aisle and a baptismal font (exterior dimensions 1.2 × 1.4 m) was discovered near its southeastern corner. The font, built of poured concrete and kurkar stones, was coated with hydraulic plaster on the interior. It was not possible to reconstruct its exact shape due to its poor state of preservation.
A corridor (length 9.5 m, width 0.85 m) that led to the church’s northeastern room (6.8 × 7.0 m) ran between the northern wall of the baptistery and the northern wall of the church complex. At the eastern end of the corridor there was a room with a base of another baptismal font that was probably fashioned in the shape of a cross (1.8 × 2.3 m). Its foundations were built of poured concrete and kurkar stones and the negatives of tiles that once lined it were visible in its center. |
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4099 |
Ascalon Barnea |
North Church (Kh. es-Sawarif) |
Southern Coastal Plain |
Scant remains of a room were discerned to the north of the northern pastophorium. |
See below, under Prothesis chapel / Diakonikon. |
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Apsidal chapel |
The state of preservation is poor. A wing or a chapel (10 m long and 7.5 m wide) with an apsidal room (4x3.5m in dimensions) in its east is attached on the south. The apse had an aedicule of three grades. A narrow space, 2m wide was uncovered between the apsidal room and the southern pastophorium. The apsidal room was interpreted as a baptistery, though no font was uncovered in it. The narrow room was associated with it. An opening in the NW corner of the room leads west. It may be suggested that the entire wing rather served as a Prothesis chapel / Diakonikon , or a Martyr's Chapel. |
Apsidal chapel |
As indicated above, a room (or chapel, 10 m long and 7.5 m wide) with internal apse, was attached to the southern wall of the basilica. It was suggested to have served as a baptistery in spite of the fact that no baptismal font was uncovered. Another possible interpretation is that it rather served as a Prothesis chapel / Diakonikon, or a Martyr's Chapel. |
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Apsidal chapel |
See above, under Prothesis chapel / diakonikon, and Baptistery. |
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12615 |
Ascalon Semadar Hotel |
Church |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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