14604 |
Jerusalem (Old city) |
The Fourth Station in the Via Dolorosa - Our Lady of the Spasm |
St. Mary |
Memorial? |
Unknown |
Jerusalem (Old City) |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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4099 |
Ascalon Barnea |
North Church (Kh. es-Sawarif) |
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Parochial |
Annex\es on N & S |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Corinthian |
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Internal apse |
monoapsidal with lockable pastophoria (mon-aps II) |
apsidal |
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Hemispherical |
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Against the apse |
grades |
Three stone steps against the apse. |
N & S |
Measurements: approx. 4.3 X 4 m. |
Measurements: approx. 4.3 X 4.5 m. |
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AM |
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4156 |
Ascalon Barnea |
Barnea North; (Nahal Evtah) |
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Parochial |
Basilica with an annexed chapel |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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No |
2 |
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Internal apse |
monoapsidal with lockable pastophoria (mon-aps II) |
apsidal |
U shaped without lateral openings |
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Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
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N & S |
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Masonry built |
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above both aisles |
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A plundered cist tomb, without covering slabs and oriented east – west (0.80 × 1.95 m) was exposed below the floor of the bema, which did not survive; the sides of the tomb were built of dressed kurkar and a few human bones were discovered inside. |
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11973 |
Ascalon Barnea |
Barnea |
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Monastic |
Basilica with an annexed chapel |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
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AM |
1 |
4201 |
Ascalon (Tel) |
South Church |
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Parochial |
Free standing basilica |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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No |
No |
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External apse, polygonal |
tri-apsidal |
apsidal |
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Hemispherical |
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AM |
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4852 |
Ascalon (Tel) |
East Church (Saint Mary the Green?) |
St. Mary. The dedication of the church might be related to the circus faction of the "Greens", popular in Byzantine times. |
Baptismal basilica |
Free standing basilica |
Southern Coastal Plain |
Ascalon |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
Yes |
2 |
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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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Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
Yes |
Against the apse |
incisions on walls |
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Water flew from the apse through a lead pipe and a settling basin reaching a marble-lined cruciform baptistery installed into the early marble floor in front of the bema. The small size and shallowness of the baptistery indicates that baptism was done by sprinkling rather than by immersion. The plates reveting the cruciform font were inserted into the marble pavement of the church. To the west there was a cistern, 4 m deep, connected to the font. The font is cruciform but conforming only partially to Ben Pechat type 4a. The arms of the cross are concave, unlike type 4a, which has straight arms and right angles between the arms. New font type. |
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cruciform |
cruciform |
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above both aisles |
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AM |
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12618 |
Ascalon (Tel) |
Northern Church |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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Palaestina I |
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AM |
1 |
12619 |
Ascalon (Tel) |
Center |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Southern Coastal Plain |
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Palaestina I |
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AM |
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12473 |
Magen |
St. Kyrikos ecclesiastical complex |
St. Kyrikos (Basilica C) |
Parochial |
Annex\es on N & S |
North-Western Negev |
Gaza |
Palaestina I |
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Unlike most of the other Early Christian churches, Basilica B is oriented NE-SW and Basilica A has a N-S orientation. |
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2 |
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Internal apse |
monoapsidal with lockable pastophoria (mon-aps II) |
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U shaped |
The fringes of Basilica B bema are delineated by brick walls. That of Basilica A - by the bedding of its mosaic floor. |
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no remains |
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No |
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Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
No |
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N & S |
Square in shape with a narrow opening to the aisle. |
Seemingly similar to the northern one, but the western wall was not preserved. |
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Masonry built |
rectangular |
rectangular |
1b |
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AM |
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11969 |
Dor (Dora) |
Pilgrims Church |
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Pilgrims' church |
Annex\es on N & S |
Coastal plain |
Dora |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Yes |
No |
2 |
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External apse, round |
dead end aisles (mon-aps III) |
apsidal |
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no remains |
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No |
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Hemispherical |
No |
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A baptismal basin located in the middle of the northern wing. |
Masonry built |
rectangular |
rectangular |
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above both aisles |
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A grave with a remains of two skeletons is located at the eastern end of the southern aisle. The grave was covered with five stone slabs. In the most eastern stone slab there was a hole with a clay pipe. The pipe was probably used to pour oil into the grave. This suggests that the two people buried there were saints and were venerated in the church. |
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13183 |
Sha'ar Ha'Aliya |
Church |
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Monastic |
Unknown |
Carmel Coastal Plain |
Ptolemais |
Phoenice I |
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TB |
1 |
882 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
Ascension |
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Memorial |
Circular |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Various graffiti found on the Byzantine plaster on the southern wall of a burial chamber hewn in the rock under the “Little Martyrium” of Melania the Younger, attached to the southeastern side of the Church of the Ascension, and on the northern wall of the same burial chamber, CIIP I.2 (2012): 923. |
Burial crypt. |
Circular church with entrance from the south. |
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No |
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AM |
1 |
13060 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
DOMINUS FLEVIT (eighth century) |
Christ's weeping, predicting the destruction of Jerusalem. |
Monastic |
With a secondary chapel |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Internal apse |
n/a |
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Transversal |
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N |
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TB |
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13612 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
St. Melania |
St. Melania |
Monastic |
Chapel |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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Internal apse |
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apsidal |
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SB |
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19931 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
Cave of Gethsemane |
Commemorates the site of arrest of Christ? |
Funerary chapel |
Cave church |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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JP |
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20689 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
Martyrium of St. Stephan in the portico of the Ascension |
St. Stephan the protomartyr |
Martyr's chapel |
Chapel |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Vaulted, underground rock-cut crypt, entered from the west. |
Burial crypt. |
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JP |
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13669 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
Russian monastery Western wing basilica |
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Monastic |
Free standing basilica |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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2 |
Colonnade |
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north of the chancel screen a rectangular recess the length of a man and 0.5 m. deep. Lined with marble was found. |
SB |
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19422 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
Gethsemene chapel |
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Funerary chapel |
Chapel |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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JP |
1 |
447 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
Gethsemane (Church of Agony) |
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Memorial |
Free standing basilica |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
Yes |
Yes |
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Corinthian |
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External apse, round |
tri-apsidal (central external, lateral internal) |
apsidal |
U shaped without lateral openings |
In the area of the apse and the bema an isolated block of rock projected 0.35 m above the floor level of the nave. This rock probably corresponds to the Christian tradition as the very spot where the Agony took place. |
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Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
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Three Byzantine tombs were discovered in the northern lateral apse. Cult of the relics? |
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Three Byzantine tombs were discovered in the northern lateral apse. Five more tombs were discovered under the floor of the atrium. |
AM |
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450 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
Eleona |
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Memorial |
Annex\es on the south |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Under the bema there is a cave, reached by two staircases from the aisles, on both sides of the sanctuary. It is 7m long and 4.5m wide, with a semi-circular apse 3m in diameter on the east. Many fragmentary screen plates and columnets were uncovered therein. To its west there is a kokhim burial cave, typical to the Second Temple period. |
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Facing east |
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Colonnade |
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External apse, polygonal |
monoapsidal with open lateral rooms or spaces (mon-aps I) |
apsidal |
U shaped without lateral openings |
Two staircases lead from the nave to the bema and apse. |
more |
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No |
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Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
No |
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N & S |
According to Wiegand (1923), the internal apse was flanked by two pastophoria, while according to the more prevalent plan by Vincent, the apse was polygonal on the outside and a pastophorium might have been existing only on the north. At the absence of clear finds, this issue cannot be determined. |
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Attached to the church on the south. See below. |
Masonry built |
rectangular |
rectangular |
1b |
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AM |
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