13279 |
Thecoa; Kh. Tekoa; Teqo'a |
Church |
AMOS/ ST. NICOLAS (?) |
Parochial |
Basilical |
Judean Desert fringes |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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External apse, quadrangular |
dead end aisles (mon-aps III) |
apsidal |
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An octagonal baptismal font was found ca. 30 m from the church. |
Monolithic |
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circular |
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13278 |
Mount Scopus (east) |
THEODORUS AND CYRIACUS |
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Monastic |
Chapel |
Judean Desert fringes |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
No |
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A hall, parallel to the church hall was partially preserved. The excavators identified the hall as "a baptistery or prothesis chapel". |
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(see Pastophoria) |
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13438 |
Naḥal Qidron |
Church |
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Monastic |
Chapel |
Judean Desert fringes |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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the axis of the chapel is not strictly coordinated with the geographical north and south, so the apse is oriented to the north-east |
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Internal apse |
dead end aisles (mon-aps III) |
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legs |
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Under the northerrn courtyard the burial complex was located, to which three entrances were leading. Near the entrances the installation for collecting water from the roof was located. This burial complex was used for the most important dwellers of the monastery. The tombs were decorated with painted and carved cross, lately defaced. In some tombs the bones were found, including the bones of the child. In the last days of the excavations the entrance to the eastern burial complex was revealed (Fig. 15). Not fully excavated. The remains of the leather footwear were found in one of the rooms (Sukenk 2017) and the iron cross identified as Mediterranean cypress. Plenty of human remains. |
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13441 |
Qasr Khalife |
Chapel |
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Monastic |
Chapel |
Hebron Hills |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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No |
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No |
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13095 |
Ras Abu-Subeitan |
Chapel |
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Monastic |
With an annexed room |
Jerusalem (Greater Jerusalem) |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Yes |
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AM |
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13119 |
Deir el-Ghawi |
Chapel (?) |
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Monastic |
Unknown |
Hebron Hills |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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13169 |
Khallet Abu Dhabakh; Khallat Abu Dabaḥ |
Church |
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Monastic? |
Basilical |
Hebron Hills |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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Yes |
2 |
Colonnade |
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External apse, round |
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apsidal |
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17835 |
Jericho |
Greek Church of Abuna Antimos |
St. Antimos |
Parochial |
Basilical |
Southern Jordan Valley |
Regio Jericho |
Palaestina I |
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Colonnade |
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13555 |
Jericho |
Northwest |
Martyr Georgius |
Unknown |
Basilica with an annexed chapel |
Southern Jordan Valley |
Regio Jericho |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Colonnade |
Corinthian |
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12920 |
Jericho |
Church of St. Andrew |
St. Andrew (?) |
Monastic |
Unknown |
Southern Jordan Valley |
Regio Jericho |
Palaestina I |
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Yes |
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AM |
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13369 |
Bassat el Kharrar |
Church |
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Monastic |
Cave church |
Southern Jordan Valley |
Medaba |
Palaestina I |
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TB |
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13112 |
Tel 'Ira |
ST. PETER |
ST. PETER |
Monastic |
Chapel |
Beer Sheba Valley |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina III |
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Facing east |
Yes |
Yes |
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External apse, round |
monoapsidal with lockable pastophoria (mon-aps II) |
apsidal |
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N & S |
The northern room opens into the chapel as well as into the atrium may have served as a storeroom or a prosthesis. |
The southern room was paved with stone flags, its function unclear but it may have served as a storeroom. |
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13181 |
Mizpe Shivta; el Mishrefa |
ST. GEORGE (?) |
ST. GEORGE (?) |
Monastic |
Chapel |
Central Negev |
Elusa |
Palaestina III |
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Facing east |
No |
No |
No |
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Internal apse |
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apsidal |
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2 steps up |
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13368 |
Bir el Qattar |
SPELAION; Church |
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Monastic |
Unknown |
Judean Desert |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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13172 |
Bir el Qattar |
SPELAION; cave Chapel |
St. Sabas |
Monastic |
Cave chapel |
Judean Desert |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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No |
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No |
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plate, legs, foundations |
Marble, table like |
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13170 |
Masada |
MARDA |
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Monastic |
Chapel |
Judean Desert |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
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Internal apse |
n/a |
apsidal |
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no remains |
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under altar |
A depression preserved in the apse suggest that a reliquary was placed there. A marble, sarcophagus-like reliquary was uncovered in the casemate wall to the NW, covered by a heap of stone. Seemingly it was hidden there by one of the monk before the site was abandoned. |
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13466 |
Deir Dosi |
THEODOSIUS (?) |
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Monastic |
Basilical |
Judean Desert fringes |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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TB |
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12562 |
Nessana |
Northern slope monastery church |
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Monastic |
Free standing |
Central Negev |
Elusa |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Internal apse |
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apsidal |
Transversal |
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1 step up |
legs |
Stone, table-like |
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In the middle of the bema |
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No |
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Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
No |
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In the middle of the bema |
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Two burials were discovered in the chapel. The first is located under the nave's floor, near the bema. It is indicated by three small crosses carved on the floor slabs. The tomb underneath was carved into bedrock and plastered. It measures 2.13 X 0.83 X 1.43 m. In the tomb skeletons of three adult males were discovered, with their feet pointing east. The second burial was found under the floor of Room 3, annexed to the chapel from northwest. The floor of this room is made of crashed limestone. Under the floor a box grave was found, carved into the bedrock. This grave measures 1.75 X 0.60 X 0.80 m and it contained a single skeleton of a woman about 35 years old with her feet pointing towards east. |
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2983 |
Nessana |
SS. Sergius and Bacchus (North church) |
SS. Sergius and Bacchus |
Parochial |
Basilica with an annexed chapel |
Central Negev |
Elusa |
Palaestina III |
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Facing east |
Yes |
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Yes |
2 |
Arcade of columns |
Corinthian |
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Internal apse |
monoapsidal with open lateral rooms or spaces (mon-aps I) |
apsidal |
U shaped without lateral openings |
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1 step up |
no remains |
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Yes |
base plate |
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On an hexagonal slab |
Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
Yes |
Against the apse |
other |
The synthronon itself has not survived. It is indicated by a rectangular stone base for the bishop's throne that projects from the wall of the apse to a length of 1.95 m. |
N & S |
The pastophorium is of an irregular shape, measuring approx. 4.3 X 3.5 m, continued behind the apse. |
Similar to the northern pastophorium. |
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A reliquiary was found in a room to the NW of the basilica. |
The font is attached to the eastern wall of the baptistery. |
Masonry built |
square |
semicircle |
3b |
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11983 |
Nessana |
St. Mary Theotokos (South Church) |
According to the inscription dedicated to St. Mary Theotokos |
Parochial |
Basilica with an annexed chapel |
Central Negev |
Elusa |
Palaestina III |
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Facing east |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
2 |
Arcade of columns |
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Internal apses |
tri-apsidal |
apsidal |
Transversal |
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2 steps up |
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On the apse cord |
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base plate |
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On a Rectangular slab |
Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
No |
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The northern apse is 2 m deep and 2.5 m wide. |
The southern apse is 2 m deep and 2.9 m wide. |
On the apse cord |
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