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
11994 Shoham bypass road Church Shephelah Quadrangular chapel Two rooms annexed to the basilica on the north were converted at the Omayyad period into a quadrangular chapel. The chapel has a transverse bema at its east part. 1
14815 Sirin Church Beth Shean Valley 1
14690 SUDANON; Ḥ. Sa‘adon North-eastern church Central Negev 1
14679 SUDANON; Ḥ. Sa‘adon South-western Church Central Negev The isolated building of the basilical proportions and comparatively large in its size (46x3 m) was revealed in the southern vicinity of the site. Its southern part seems to be an open courtyard with the square tower (8.8x7.5 m). Rubin and Shereshevsky had suggested that this complex might be another church, though the apse wasn't found so far. The other suggestion of Hirschfled is that this building might be a pilgrim's hostel and merchant's caravanserai. 1
13561 Suhmata Church Western Galilee 1
13741 Sussita Cathedral Golan Heights A tri-apsidal basilical baptistery. The 2021 excavations along the cathedral’s southern wall revealed that an additional row of rooms lay to the south of the main church area, belonging to a chapel with a cross-shaped baptismal font. A western room was paved with a well preserved mosaic floor, and an eastern room had an opus sectile floor. Apsidal Tri-apsidal baptismal basilica. See below under "Baptistery". Basilical Basilical in shape and abutting the cathedral on its north, with an interconnecting doorway. Tri-apsidal. Each of the two colonnades have three columns. The capitals are Corinthian. The font is located in the center of the main apse. It is sunk, coated with pinkish plaster. Circular on the outside and cruciform on the inside. The walls are curved (width 1.16 m; depth 0.47 m). An additional baptismal font, built of bricks, was uncovered in 2021 in a chapel annexed to the Chathedral on the south. 1
16693 Sussita Chapel Golan Heights 1
108 Sussita Northeast Church (NEC) Golan Heights Simple rectangular room A doorway in the southern wall of the southern aisle, near the chancel screen, ‎leads to a spacious room (6.23 x 5.63 m), attached to the southeastern corner ‎of the church. Two pilasters attached to its southern and northern ‎walls carried two arches that held the roof. Stone benches were installed along its northern, western and southern walls. On the ‎south wall above the bench is a rectangular niche in the wall that served as a cupboard. The floor is of hard plaster.‎ A finely worked, square stone cistern-head is located neat the northeastern corner of the. room, set over a platform about 25 cm high above the floor. On the cistern platform a small hoard of ‎gold jewelry, including a magic amulet pendant and three belt pieces, was uncovered under a fragment of a jar. ‎ The over-sized dimensions of this room in comparison to the small size of the church , ‎the cistern, the healing charm and the direct proximity to the tomb of the elderly woman (located in the southern ‎part of the chancel), lead the excavators to suggest that "the room served a local ‎healing cult".‎ Simple rectangular room This is the easternmost room of the northern annex. Mosaic paved, it has three doorways in its eastern, southern and western wall. The eastern door (1.1 m wide), lockable from inside, leads outside, to cardo 3N and to the "peristyle house" to its east. The southern - to the chancel, and the western - to the "median chamber" of the northern annex, that served as a sort of an antechamber both to the "skeuophylakion" and to a non-excavated building that extended farther north (the Northern Building). The multiplicity of doorways and the absence of cupboards cast doubt on the identification of the small (3.43 m north to south ‎and 3.15 m east to west), mosaic-paved room as a treasury (skeuophylakion). In the northeast corner of the ‎room is a bench (62 X 132 X 55 cm high) that was built in Phase 2 over the mosaic floor - the best preserved in the entire church. The western hall of the northern annex, stone paved and accessed through a doorway in the western portico / exonarthex, was actually a corridor that led to the "median chamber". A stone staircase installed next to its southern room led to an upper platform above its eastern end, that was supported by three (or four) columns. It seems that this balcony gave access to the second floor of the Northern Building. 1
109 Sussita Northwest Church (NWC) Golan Heights See below under Prothesis chapel. The southern annex, labeled "diakonikon", consists of two interconnected spaces (the western 4.90 m. long, the eastern 6.80 m. long; both 3.90 m. wide). The western space is spanned by one arch, the eastern - by two. Entrance (1.75 m. wide) was from the southern aisle, on its western part. Together the two rooms look as an elongated chapel. A masonry bed was installed opposite the entrance. Many utensils and vessels of clay and metal were uncovered dispersed on the floors. Among them a broken stone case with two compartments that might have served as another reliquary. The excavators' proposal that it was a small basin for baptizing new-born by sparkling seems to be less plausible. A stone plate broken to two pieces leaning against the eastern wall might had originally served as a table plate, but its original location is not known. The metal vessels include agricultural utensils (sickles, a pruning knife), an Umayyad decanter and a bronze polycandelon ring. The clay vessels include cooking pots, pans and bowls, interpreted as home-made meal offerings. It is evident that in its final phase this hall served as an all-purpose storeroom, not solely for liturgical vessels. This annex served as a diakonikon of the store-room type. Quadrangular chapel The excavators suggested that the mosaic paved rectangular room (4.60 m. north – south, 6.60 m. east – west) attached to the basilica on the north served as a baptistery. It was entered from the center of the northern aisle via a 1.15 m. wide door. In Phase III a winery was built above it. The original function of this room is unknown, but it is wider than the southern "diakonikon" and unlike it, it is mosaic paved. To its west there is an elongated hall, labeled "fermentation room". Being mosaic paved as well, and of the same width, these two attached spaces seems to had served as a prothesis chapel. See above under Prothesis chapel Quadrangular chapel To the west of the "diakonikon" a square room (3x3 m), entered from the southeastern corner of the atrium, held two cist-tombs oriented E-W and covered by basalt beams. A donor named Antona mentioned in a Greek inscription set in the mosaic floor of the southern portico of the atrium might have been buried here. In Phase 3 one of the cist tomb was cleared of its bones and wine jars dated to the 7th c. were placed therein. Simple rectangular room This was not an annexed space, but rather a rear room left behind the southern apse (see General Description). 1
107 Sussita Southwest Church (SWC) Golan Heights An annexed chapel was uncovered in the 2022 excavations season. A mosaic paved chapel annexed on the south was partially exposed in 2022. Its eastern part was not exposed yet. At a certain point of time two columns were erected over the mosaic floor to the east of the entrance, seemingly to retain the ceiling. A second floor is suggested by numeroise tesserae in the fill, The walls and the columns, plastered, are preserved to an elevation of ca. 2m. An intact offertory inscription in a medallion was preserved to the east of the entrance to the chapel. Its function is not known yet. It could have served as a prothesis chapel. 1
13270 Sycamina; Shiqmona; Tell es Samak Chapel Carmel Coastal Plain 1
13331 Sycamina; Shiqmona; Tell es Samak church (?) Carmel Coastal Plain 1
13166 Sycamina; Shiqmona; Tell es Samak - Southern Church Southern Church Carmel Coastal Plain 1
12409 Tamra By the Spring Central and Eastern Galilee 1
12410 Tamra Church Lower Galilee 1
13112 Tel 'Ira ST. PETER Beer Sheba Valley 1
15612 Tel Azor Church Coastal plain 1
13113 Tel Basul Church Beth Shean Valley 1
19409 Tel Kedesh Chapel Upper Galilee 1
13560 Tel Kison; Tell Keisan Church Western Galilee A two units annex is located south of the church, built against its southern wall. See Prothesis chapel below. Quadrangular chapel A two units annex is located south of the church. The small room west of the large southern lateral room is contemporary to the church. According to Briend, it was a secondary narthex, open to the south. According to Michel (Vo. 2: 383 and Vol. 3, Fig. 710), it might had rather been a real hall, the small stones in the inside of its southern and western walls being just a fill between two faces of large stones. The long room on the west was originally an open space and in a later unknown date its western and southern walls were added. 1
13114 Tel Masos; Khirbet el-Masas; Khirbet el Meshash Chapel Beer Sheba Valley 1
13115 Tel Mugheifir Church Southern Jordan Valley 1
13683 Tel Qerayot Church Hebron Hills 1
13770 Tel Tanninim Church Coastal plain 1
16238 Tel ʿAvdon Church (West of the mound) Western Galilee 1

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