16173 |
Deir Hajla (Monastery of Gerasimus) |
Lower Church |
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Monastic |
Chapel |
Southern Jordan Valley |
Regio Jericho |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Arcade of pillars |
Ionic, Composite, Basket, Corinthian |
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elsewhere |
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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12994 |
Deir Ghazali (Pisgat Ze’ev) |
Chapel |
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Monastic |
Chapel |
Judean Hills |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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13002 |
Deir el-Quruntul (Monastery of Douka) |
Chapel |
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Monastic |
Cave church |
Judean Desert |
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Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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AM |
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13008 |
El Mathumeh |
Chapel |
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Hermitage chapel |
Cave chapel |
Lower Galilee |
Sepphoris |
Palaestina II |
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Facing south |
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13031 |
Cells of Choziba (cell no. 9) |
Church of the Cells/Laura of St. Anne |
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Hermitage chapel |
Cave chapel |
Judean Desert |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
No |
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Internal apse |
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Chest-shaped |
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Inside the apse |
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Hemispherical |
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Inside the apse |
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13032 |
Cells of Choziba (cell no. 13) |
Chapel (cell no. 13) |
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Hermitage chapel |
Chapel |
Judean Desert |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
No |
Yes |
No |
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Internal apse |
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apsidal |
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13122 |
Ḥorvat Dayar; Khirbet ed-Deir; Kh. Duweir |
Chapel |
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Monastic |
Chapel |
Southern and Western Samaria |
Diospolis |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
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apsidal |
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13070 |
Khirbet Ni’ana |
Church |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Shephelah |
Diospolis |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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AM |
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13071 |
Beit Surik |
Church |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Judean Hills |
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Palaestina I |
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AM |
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13087 |
Motza (Colonia) |
Church |
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Parochial |
Basilica with an annexed chapel |
Judean Hills |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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A barrel-vaulted burial crypt was found under the southern aisle at its eastern end. The division into 4 tombs was by standing tiles. |
Burial crypt. |
Facing east |
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Yes |
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Supra, under Crypt. |
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13088 |
Ramat Polin |
Chapel |
George the martyr (?) |
Monastic |
With an annexed room |
Judean Hills |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
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AM |
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13081 |
Beit Jala |
Church |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Judean Hills |
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Palaestina I |
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Original entrance is through a barrel vaulted corridor and four steps in the east, a modern entrance were quarried from the west. The crypt itself is a cross shaped chapel. The eastern room is T shaped. The floor in the central square is lower than the side rooms. The north and south rooms are different size rectangular. In the west is a polygonal apse (Bagatti, 2002). The three side rooms have barrel vaulted roofs and coarse mosaic floors. The square center is roofed by a dome with a shaft in the middle. Dimensions: Central Square: 2.3X2 m., 2 m. high. Side rooms: 1.8X1/1.5 m. 1.8 m. high. |
Burial crypt. |
The Crypt is facing west. |
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crypt |
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SB |
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13061 |
Deir el-Muqalik |
THEOCTISTUS |
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Monastic |
Cave church |
Judean Desert |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
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Internal apse |
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apsidal |
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no remains |
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13126 |
Deir Qrukh |
Church of Saint Gregory. |
Saint Gregory |
Monastic |
Annex\es on the north |
Golan Heights |
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Palaestina II |
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Facing east |
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Arcade of pillars |
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Internal apse |
monoapsidal with lockable pastophoria (mon-aps II) |
quadrangular |
Miscellaneous shape |
The bema is in the square room which is elevated by two steps from the nave . |
2 steps up |
imprints |
Stone, table-like |
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1.8X3.2 m. entered through a doorway from the aisle and a doorway from the quadrangular sanctuary. The remaining roof belongs to the modern period. Three plaster floors were built one on top of the other. Pottery sherds were found underneath. |
1.8X3.2 m. entered through a doorway from the aisle. The extant roof beams that belong to the Mamluk period are resting on the original brackets, located 2.5 m. above floor level. Three plaster floors built one on top of the other, under them pottery was found. |
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SB |
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13146 |
Khirbet el-Batiya |
Church |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Central and Eastern Galilee |
Tyre (?) |
Phoenice I |
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Facing east |
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TB |
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11990 |
Scythopolis / Beth Shean (Tel Iẓtaba) |
Andreas church |
St. Basilius - a local martyr under the tetrarchy together with 70 companions. Feast day - July 5th (Di Segni 2022). |
Episcopal |
Basilica with an annexed chapel |
Beth Shean Valley |
Scythopolis |
Palaestina II |
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Facing east |
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External apse, round |
single opening flanking the apse (mon-aps V ) |
apsidal |
U shaped without lateral openings |
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1 step up |
no remains |
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No |
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Hemispherical |
No |
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An empty tomb was found in the eastern side of the apse. |
AM |
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12579 |
Scythopolis / Beth Shean (Tel Iẓtaba) |
Church of the Martyr |
St. Basilius, a local martyr, executed with seventy companions in the Diocletianic persecutions (Di Segni 2022). |
Monastic |
Trefoil |
Beth Shean Valley |
Scythopolis |
Palaestina II |
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Facing east |
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No |
Yes |
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Arcade of pillars |
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External apse, round |
two openings flanking the apse (mon-aps IV) |
apsidal |
U shaped without lateral openings |
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2 steps up |
foundations |
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Depression in the floor |
In the middle of the bema |
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base plate |
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Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
Yes |
Against the apse |
grades |
The five grades of the synthronon, located against the wall of the central apse, are clearly visible on the ground plan of the church. No farther description is provided in the preliminary reports. |
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In the middle of the bema |
under altar, elsewhere |
A sarcophagus was set in the northern apsidal foil, behind the screen. |
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AM |
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13164 |
Scythopolis / Beth Shean; Tell el Husn |
Round church; acropolis church |
The church was probably dedicated to Saint Procopius. |
Episcopal |
Circular |
Beth Shean Valley |
Scythopolis |
Palaestina II |
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Facing east |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Colonnade |
Trapezoidal, Corinthian |
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External apse, round |
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apsidal |
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no remains |
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Hemispherical |
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Opposite the main entrance to the church deep (2.13 m) narrow baptistery with six stairs was exposed. Probably it was built in the phase 1B when the western openings of the ambulatory were blocked. |
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13523 |
Scythopolis/Beth Shean |
el Hammam |
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Funerary chapel |
Chapel |
Beth Shean Valley |
Scythopolis |
Palaestina II |
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Facing east |
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SB |
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13307 |
Scythopolis/Beth Shean |
KYRA MARIA church |
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Monastic |
Chapel |
Beth Shean Valley |
Scythopolis |
Palaestina II |
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Facing east |
Yes |
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Yes |
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External apse, round |
n/a |
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Transversal |
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Two burials were located within the chapel. Human remains were found in the graves along with a coin of Herakles (625 CE) and two bronze crosses. |
TB |
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