12893 |
Mevo Modi’im |
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Monastic |
With an annexed room |
Shephelah |
Nikopolis |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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1 step up |
plate, legs |
Stone, table-like |
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12895 |
Khirbet Khudria |
Church |
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Monastic |
Basilical |
Samaria Hills |
Neapolis |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Monolith baptismal font was revealed in the vicinity of the church. |
Monolithic |
square |
quadrifoil |
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AM |
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12896 |
Khirbet el-Kiliya |
Chapel |
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Monastic |
Free standing |
Samaria Desert Fringes |
Antipatris |
Palaestina I |
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The crypt consists of various tombs installed underneath the room's mosaic floor. Several skeletons were interred in the same tomb. |
Burial crypt. |
Facing east |
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Yes |
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AM |
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12897 |
Beit ‘Ur et-Tahta |
Chapel |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Southern and Western Samaria |
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Palaestina I |
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AM |
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12898 |
Khirbet Suweikeh |
St. Varus (?) |
St. Varus (?) |
Unknown |
Basilical |
Southern and Western Samaria |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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AM |
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12901 |
Khirbet 'Asida |
Church |
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Unknown |
Free standing basilica |
Judean Hills |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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Yes |
2 |
Colonnade |
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SB |
1 |
12905 |
'Ein el Hanniya |
Church |
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Unknown |
Free standing basilica |
Judean Hills |
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Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
Yes |
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Yes |
2 |
Colonnade |
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Internal apses |
monoapsidal with lockable pastophoria (mon-aps II) |
apsidal |
Miscellaneous shape |
The bema is wider than the apse, but does not extend into the aisles. |
2 steps up |
imprints |
Chest-shaped |
Depression in the floor |
On the apse cord |
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Elevated relative to the bema |
Hemispherical |
Yes |
Against the apse |
indications on the floor |
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N & S |
Separated from the aisle by a step, now destroyed. Near the east end marks of a secondary table are visible in the floor, in its center, a stone cup. |
Approached from the aisle by two steps, in line with the bema steps, not from the original phase. This as well as the extension of the mosaic carpet which extended up to this line may suggest that the area farther east served as a martyrial chapel as well. The original floor was destroyed to bed rock. The two steps are now destroyed. An outline of a secondary table can be recognized in the mosaic. There was niche at the south-west corner. |
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On the apse cord |
under altar, N apse, S apse |
A rectangular marble reliquary with a gabled lid was found in the middle of a rectangular cavity reveted by limestone plates, located under the altar. The gabled lid had a perforated hole on its top. An anthropological analysis revealed that the bones comprised of a skeleton of a child, about 4 years old; a skull of an adult female and a foot of an animal (sheep or goat).
A second reliquary, of limestone, held two compartment, one rectangular and the other oval. It was smaller and with broken walls.
A rectangular hole in the mosaic floor of the northern pastophrium, with a concave cavity in its center, suggest that a third reliquiary might have been located there. |
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SB |
1 |
12915 |
Machmas (Mukhmas) |
Church |
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Unknown |
Basilical |
Judean Desert fringes |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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AM |
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12916 |
Khallat ed-Danabiya |
Church |
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Monastic |
Cave church |
Samaria Desert Fringes |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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The crypt is cut into a natural cave beneath the floor of the church. The access is from outside. The crypt consists of two burial compartments, each 2 x 1.5 m. The compartments were separated by a partition of fieldstones and the walls were plastered. A number of skeletons were found in the crypt.
A second burial was found to the south of the church. The entrance was located on a rock-platform about five meters southwest of the cave church. The burial cave is 2.5 m high and 5.25 m wide. Four burial benches were separated from each other by low partitions of fieldstones coated with plaster. |
Burial crypt. |
Facing east |
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A rock-cut baptismal font, 1.5x1.8m in dimensions, was found to the south of the apse of the cave chapel. Its floor was paved by a crude, white mosaic floor, and its walls coated by hydraulic plaster. |
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rectangular |
rectangular |
1b |
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AM |
1 |
12918 |
Ez-Zakhaliq (Khirbet Ras et-Tawil) |
Chapel |
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Monastic |
Free standing |
Samaria Desert Fringes |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
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AM |
1 |
12919 |
Nuseib el-‘Aweishireh |
Church |
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Monastic |
Unknown |
Southern Jordan Valley |
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Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
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AM |
1 |
12936 |
Jebel el Qafsa; Har Qedumim |
Chapel |
Saltus Domini. |
Hermitage chapel |
Cave chapel |
Lower Galilee |
Sepphoris |
Palaestina II |
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Facing North-East. |
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Yes |
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Internal apse |
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apsidal |
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Hemispherical |
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SB |
1 |
12951 |
Tell ‘Aqaba |
Chapel (?) |
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Monastic |
Free standing |
Judean Desert |
Regio Jericho |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
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AM |
1 |
12952 |
Khirbet Mugheifir (Monasteries of Elias) |
Church |
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Monastic |
Unknown |
Southern Jordan Valley |
Regio Jericho |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
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AM |
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12953 |
Qasr el-Yahud |
St. John the Baptist |
St. John the Baptist |
Monastic |
Unknown |
Southern Jordan Valley |
Regio Jericho |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
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AM |
1 |
12954 |
Nebi Samwil |
Church |
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Monastic |
Unknown |
Southern and Western Samaria |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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AM |
1 |
12956 |
Qal’at Musa |
Church |
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Monastic |
Unknown |
Judean Desert |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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AM |
1 |
12955 |
'Ein Fara (Monastery of Pharan) |
Chapel |
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Monastic |
Free standing |
Judean Desert |
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Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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No |
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External apse, round |
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AM |
1 |
12990 |
'Ein Hajla (Monastery of Calamon) |
Church |
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Monastic |
Unknown |
Southern Jordan Valley |
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Palaestina I |
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AM |
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16159 |
Deir Hajla (Monastery of Gerasimus) |
Upper Church |
unknown |
Monastic |
Basilical |
Southern Jordan Valley |
Regio Jericho |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
Yes |
2 |
Arcade of pillars |
Ionic, Composite, Basket, Corinthian |
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Internal apse |
dead end aisles (mon-aps III) |
apsidal |
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legs |
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N & S |
The apse was flanked with square pastophoria, formed from the eastern dead-ends of aisles and tapered passages into them with pilasters and piers. Behind the apse there was a narrow passageway, that originally connected the pastophoria. |
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The are the venerated remains of the martyrs, massacred by Persians in 614 in the monastery. The tomb of St. Gerasimus is said to be somewhere in the desert; lost. |
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