14800 |
Ḥ. Yonim- |
Church |
unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Judean Hills |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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12842 |
Ḥaditha- |
Church |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Southern and Western Samaria |
Diospolis |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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17573 |
Kharase |
Church |
unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Hebron Hills |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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13533 |
Horvat Qasra |
Cave Chapel |
St. Salome? |
Funerary chapel |
Cave chapel |
Shephelah |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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17222 |
Ḥalḥūl |
church (?) |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Hebron Hills |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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11979 |
Ḥorvat Karkur ‘Illit |
Church |
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Burial (coemiterium) |
Annex\es on N & S |
North-Western Negev |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
Yes |
2 |
Arcade of columns |
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Internal apse |
monoapsidal with lockable pastophoria (mon-aps II) |
apsidal |
U shaped without lateral openings |
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3 steps up |
plate, foundations |
Marble, table like |
Depression in the floor |
In the middle of the bema |
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Against the apse |
grades |
The synthronon had three steps, each step 40 cm wide. The height of all three steps was approx. 80 cm. |
N & S |
Almost square room, measures approx. 4.3 X 4 m. The entrance from the northern aisle is 1.3 m wide. The floor is of a simple beaten earth. |
Rectangular room, measures approx. 3.2 X 4.5 m. Its floor is paved with a colored mosaic. In the middle of the room a tomb was opened in the mosaic floor. |
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In the middle of the bema |
under altar |
The reliquary is located twenty cm beneath the pavement of the bema. It was made of a single column drum (60 cm in diameter) of local limestone. In its upper flat side was carved a rectangular cavity (19 X 17.5 X 10 cm). The reliquary was found empty. |
The baptismal font is located in the hall of the northern chapel (described under "Prothesis chapel"). In the first stage the baptismal font was dug into the floor, and was circular from outside and quatrefoil from inside. The length of the quatrefoil is 2 m. In the second stage a small stone basin, 0.54 m deep, was set in the northern leaf of the quatrefoil font. |
Masonry built |
circular |
quadrifoil |
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Twenty tombs were found under the floor in different parts of the church. There are three rows of three tombs in the nave; one row of five tombs in each of the aisles; and a single tomb in the middle of the southern pastophorium. The tombs proper located up to 1 m deep under the floor. They are built as a rectangular box lined with a rectangular stone slabs. Their location indicated by a covering flagstones in the church's floor. The covering had an average length of 2 m and a width of 60 cm. Most of the tombs seem to be family tombs, since they contained skeletal remains of men, women and children. |
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14801 |
Khirbet Zanuta- |
Church |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Hebron Hills |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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Yes |
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Corinthian |
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probably, several stones with the relief cross and Greek letters were derived from the bema construction for the building of the mosque |
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ST |
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14808 |
Khirbet Zeifzefiya- |
Church |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Coastal plain |
Diospolis |
Palaestina I |
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13004 |
Jericho; Nestorian hermitage |
Chapel |
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Monastic |
With an annexed room |
Southern Jordan Valley |
Regio Jericho |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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AM |
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14760 |
Rafat- |
Church |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Hebron Hills |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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14809 |
Ras ed Dahar- |
El Kenise |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Chapel |
Western Galilee |
Sepphoris |
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12949 |
Wadi Suweinit; el- Maqtara; el-‘Aleiliyat |
Chapel |
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Monastic |
With a secondary chapel |
Judean Desert fringes |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
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External apse, quadrangular |
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apsidal |
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Hemispherical |
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AM |
1 |
17842 |
Khirbet Abu Sihwaile |
Church |
unknown |
Unknown |
Basilical |
Judean Desert fringes |
Eleutheropolis |
Palaestina I |
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Yes |
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Colonnade |
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ST |
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17859 |
Abassan el-Kebir (Sheikh Ibrahim) |
Church |
unknown |
Parochial |
Unknown |
Gaza strip |
Raphia |
Palaestina I |
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Tomb near the northern wall of the chapel (inside it). |
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13033 |
Cells of Choziba (cell no. 18) |
Chapel (cell no. 18) |
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Hermitage chapel |
Chapel |
Judean Desert |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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TB |
1 |
17862 |
Abu Baraqeh (Deir el-Balah) |
Church |
unknown |
Unknown |
Basilical |
Gaza strip |
Raphia |
Palaestina I |
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ST |
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17874 |
Kh. 'Amra |
Church |
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Unknown |
Free standing basilica |
Beer Sheba Valley |
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Palaestina III |
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Facing east |
Yes |
Yes |
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monoapsidal with lockable pastophoria (mon-aps II) |
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N & S |
2.2X2.5 m. in dimensions. |
2.0X2.2 m. in dimensions. |
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Nine cist graves, 0.5X2 m. in dimensions, were found under the nave. One contained a lime-stone tombstone with a cross and several Greek letters. |
SB |
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17877 |
Yotvata |
Chapel |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Eilat Region |
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Palaestina III |
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SB |
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17882 |
Gaza Strip (between Dayr al Balah and Khan Yunis) |
Church |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Gaza strip |
Raphia |
Palaestina I |
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12950 |
Choziba Monastery |
SS. John and George of Choziba |
SS. John and George of Choziba |
Monastic |
Cave chapel |
Judean Desert |
Regio Jericho |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Internal apse |
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apsidal |
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Hemispherical |
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In the southern wall, in a niche, George of Choziba is buried and over the niche is his skull; in the northern wall is a reliquary with the skulls of fourteen martyred monks from the period of the Persian conquest in 614. |
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