Attached structures

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Nid Site Name Church name Geographical region Annex/es on the north Annex/es on the south Secondary basilica Secondary basilica description Prothesis chapel / Diakonikon Prothesis chapel / Diakonikon description Baptistery Baptistery description Burial room or chapel Burial room or chapel description Sacristy / skeuophylakion Sacristy / skeuophylakion description Martyrs chapel Martyrs chapel description Count
16030 Miʿiliya Church Western Galilee 1
13182 Modi'in West (temporary name) Church Southern and Western Samaria 1
13087 Motza (Colonia) Church Judean Hills A small chapel north of the church was entered from the northern aisle (does not appear on the ground plan). The chapel mosaic floor contains two three-line Greek inscriptions, each in a tabula ansata. Paleography suggests a date not earlier than 540 CE. 1
13532 Mount Carmel Church Mt. Carmel 1
649 Mount Gerizim Church of Mary Theotokos Southern and Western Samaria The church had four chapels with apses. Two on the east attached to the central apse and two to the west adjacent to the narthex. All chapels are entered from the ambulatory by a doorway in their long sides. The two western chapels also have an entrances from the narthex, through an antechambers. Between the eastern and western chapels there are two narrow trapezoid rooms (from north and south of the ambulatory), entered only from the inside of the church. The purpose of the chapels is uncertain, although the excavators assume that the northeastern chapel is the prothesis and the southeastern is a diaconicon. In the center of the apse of the latter one, a hexagon-shaped stone installation was discovered. At first it was interpreted as baptistery but, later on it was assumed that it might have been a reliquary. See below under Baptistery and Martyrs chapel See above. Apsidal chapel The excavators assume that the northeastern chapel served as a prothesis and that the southeastern one as a diakonikon, as they serve in the present Greek Orthodox rite. But this is an anachronistic interpretation. The SE chapel seems to had served as a baptismal chapel. Apsidal chapel The hexagon-shaped stone installation uncovered in the SE chapel was first interpreted as a baptismal font. According to another interpretation it served as a reliquary container - rare in attached chapels. A baptismal font interpretation should be preferred. Apsidal chapel See supra, under Baptistery description. 1
13278 Mount Scopus (east) THEODORUS AND CYRIACUS Judean Desert fringes 1
12972 Mt. Tabor Chapel of Elias Lower Galilee 1
12973 Mt. Tabor Chapel of Moses Lower Galilee 1
12971 Mt. Tabor Church of the Savior; Transfiguration Lower Galilee 1
14429 Nabi Thari; Nebi Tari; Neby Thary; Kh. Sheeri Basilica Sharon 1
12627 Nahal Heletz ‎(Northwest)‎ Church Southern Coastal Plain 1
12600 Nahal Hodiyya ‎(Nir Israel)‎ Church Southern Coastal Plain 1
13438 Naḥal Qidron Church Judean Desert fringes 1
12652 Nahal Ruhama ‎(Wadi Abu‎ Rashid)‎ Church Southern Coastal Plain 1
14434 Nahal Tanninim; Nahar el-Zaqra; Kh. Kabara; Syna mons; Crocodilon flumen Chapel Sharon 1
12628 Nahal Yoav Church Southern Coastal Plain 1
147 Nahariya Giv'at Katsenelson Western Galilee Other The annex on the north was not excavated; it is recognized by the floor bedding. The southern annex was divided into two spaces (their southern parts were not preserved; no openings leading to them from the southern aisle were recognized). The western space is much longer than the eastern one. It might have been a quadrangular chapel (most of the southern wall of the aisle was not preserved; a doorway might had existed there). On the east of the northern apse there is another room. Simple rectangular room The eastern space attached to the eastern aisle might had served as a sacristy. No doorway leading in from the aisle was recognized. Simple rectangular room A mosaic-paved room to the east of the northern apse might had served as a martyrs chapel. 1
19719 Nazareth - Archangel Gabriel; St. Gabriel St. Gabriel Lower Galilee 1
13613 Nazareth Church of St. Joseph Lower Galilee 1
13671 Nazareth Church of the Annunciation Lower Galilee 1
12716 Neapolis (Shechem)‎ Cathedral Samaria Hills 1
12717 Neapolis (Shechem)‎ Jacob’s Well Samaria Hills 1
12954 Nebi Samwil Church Southern and Western Samaria 1
14512 Nes 'Amim church (?) Western Galilee 1
11984 Nessana Central Church Central Negev A five-units annex, including an elongated baptistery an ante-chamber on the west and two sacristies on the east. See baptistery below. See Prothesis chapel below. Apsidal chapel A chapel is attached to the church from south. It is 20 m long and about 10 m wide. It is basilical in plan, with a nave (5 m wide) separated from the aisles (2.4 m wide) by two rows of three columns. The main entrance to the chapel was from the narthex, through a 1.6 m wide doorway in the western wall of the chapel. The U-shaped bema at the eastern part of the hall is raised one step above the nave's floor. At the center of the bema a few fragments of a marble altar table were found. The bema is surrounded by a marble chancel screen with three openings leading to the nave and the aisles. The chapel's apse is 3.5 m wide and 2.25 m deep. It is free-standing, surrounded from the east by a corridor (ambulatorium), which is connected with the chapel's aisles, the southern aisle of the basilica and a service room east of the chapel. This service room is almost square, measuring 3.1 X 2.9 m. The hall and bema of the chapel as well as the ambulatorium, all are paved with limestone slabs. Quadrangular chapel The baptismal chapel is attached to the church on the north. The northern annex comprises of two units: the baptistery chapel itself and a service room east of it. The service room is almost square, measuring 3.7 X 3.6 m and is paved with colorful mosaic decorated with floral and geometric patterns. The baptismal chapel had four entrances: one in the eastern wall, near its southern end, leading to the service chamber; the second doorway, in the southern wall, connected the baptistery with the northern aisle; the third entrance, in the same wall but farther west, connecting the chapel with the narthex; and the fourth, in the opposite wall, leading north, outside. The internal length of the chapel is 18.8 m. The width is about 4 m at the east and 5 m at the west. The eastern part of the chapel is raised one step above the hall, forming a bema, that was separated from the hall by a transversal marble chancel screen. In the middle of the screen was an opening, 0.87 m wide. The hall and the bema are paved with limestone slabs. The baptismal font was constructed at the center of the bema. The original font was horseshoe shaped (Ben Pechat type 3a), of poured concrete and faced with marble on the inside and outside. In a second phase, seemingly due to seepage, a smaller, octagonal monolithic font (type 7c) was placed inside the original font. Dimensions of inner font: Outside diameter 0.85m, inner diameter 0.65m. Both were 0.4m in height above the floor. 1

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