13594 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
Russian monastery northern wing funerary chapel |
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Funerary chapel |
Unknown |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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13679 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
St. Mary on Mt. of Olives |
St. Mary |
Monastic? |
Unknown |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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13595 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
Russian monastery Eastern wing church (?) |
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Funerary chapel |
Unknown |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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3128 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
near Bethphage (Ancona?) |
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Monastic |
Annex\es on the north |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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No |
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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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Depression in the floor |
Inside the apse |
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No |
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Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
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N & S |
A rectangular unit (10 X 4.6 m) divided into two rooms attached to the central apse from the north. A Greek burial inscription in tabula ansata set into the mosaic floor of the rectangular unit; six names are mentioned: a priest, a deacon and and 4 monazontes. |
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Inside the apse |
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At the east end of the northern aisle two graves were found, containing the remains of skeletons. |
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14607 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
Viri Galilaei |
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Memorial |
Unknown |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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13059 |
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) |
DOMINUS FLEVIT (5-7th centuries) |
Christ's weeping, predicting the future destruction of Jerusalem. |
Monastic |
With a secondary chapel |
Jerusalem Mount of Olives |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Internal apse |
n/a |
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Transversal |
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N |
Diakonikon |
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13604 |
Jerusalem (Extra mural) |
Kefar Shiloah (Silwan) chapels |
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Monastic |
With a secondary chapel |
Jerusalem (extra-mural) |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Facing east |
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13721 |
Jerusalem (Extra mural) |
Ketef Hinnom |
St. George? |
Unknown |
Free standing basilica |
Jerusalem (extra-mural) |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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A vaulted crypt to the S of three burial troughs located under the narthex. |
Burial crypt. |
Facing east |
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Yes |
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SB |
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2525 |
Jerusalem (Extra mural) |
ST. STEPHEN |
Dedicated to St. Stephen whose bones were interred there. |
Monastic |
Basilica with an annexed chapel |
Jerusalem (extra-mural) |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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To the west of the facade; running north-south, 3m deep. |
Location of Eudocia's tomb according to Lagrange. |
Facing east |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Basket, Corinthian |
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External apse, polygonal |
dead end aisles (mon-aps III) |
apsidal |
U shaped without lateral openings |
Slots for fixing the chancel screens and posts are delineating the bema. |
2 steps up |
plate, imprints, base plate |
Marble, table like |
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On the apse cord |
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Yes |
base plate |
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On an hexagonal slab |
Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
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On the apse cord |
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A box like reliquary, 0.62x0.37m, 0.40m high, with three compartments, might had served as a sub-altar reliquary, but this is not certain. |
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Various disturbed tombs were uncovered mainly under the atrium. One of them with finds dated to the 5th c. |
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2560 |
Jerusalem (Extra mural) |
Above the Siloam Pool |
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Pilgrims' church |
Free standing basilica |
Jerusalem (extra-mural) |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Wooden beams recognized by grooves on the northern wall separated the area in front of the northern apse from the underlying crypt. A rectangular chest-like space was installed at the bottom and the niche built at the eastern side. Plastered and paved by marble slabs in front of the niche. |
Martyrial |
Facing north |
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No |
Yes |
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Arcade of columns |
Corinthian |
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Internal apse |
monoapsidal with open lateral rooms or spaces (mon-aps I) |
apsidal |
U shaped with two lateral openings |
The U-shaped bema raised two steps above the nave, separated by a chancel screen. |
2 steps up |
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In the middle of the bema |
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Flush with the bema |
Hemispherical |
Yes |
Against the apse |
grades |
Synthronon of five grades, with the stone base of the bishop's throne at its center. |
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Square room entered from the northern aisle. In Phase 2 it was converted to a lateral apse with a crypt underneath. |
Not preserved, but extended east beyond the external wall of the apse. |
Martyrial, with a crypt underneath. |
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In the middle of the bema |
N apse |
Masonry chest installed at the bottom of the niche in the crypt. |
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AM |
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13631 |
Jerusalem (Extra mural) |
The Birds-Mosaic Chapel |
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Funerary chapel |
Chapel |
Jerusalem (extra-mural) |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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A burial chamber under the western part of the chapel, accessed from the outside, on the south. |
Burial. The remains of 14 adult skeletons, mainly carnial and long bones, and of 4 children. |
Facing east |
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A small underground chamber located under the south-west corer of the chapel, accessed from the outside, contained bones and oil lamps. Ca. 3.5 x 3.5 m. |
SB |
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16065 |
Jerusalem (Extra mural) |
Funerary chapel (?) of Theodosia and Georgia; Musrara |
Theodosia and Georgia (?) |
Funerary chapel |
Chapel |
Jerusalem (extra-mural) |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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oriented in a southwest-northeast direction |
No |
No |
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No |
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N & S |
The apse was flanked by two lateral rooms, which, probably, were the tombs originally, converted during the Byzantine period into pastophoria. |
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14862 |
Jerusalem (Extra mural) |
YMCA |
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Monastic |
Basilical |
Jerusalem (extra-mural) |
Jerusalem |
Palaestina I |
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Yes |
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no remains |
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TB |
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12439 |
Heptapegon |
The Sermon on the Mount. |
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Monastic |
With an annexed room |
Sea of Galilee |
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Palaestina II |
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Facing east |
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External apse, round |
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apsidal |
Miscellaneous shape |
The apse is raised a step above the chapel hall. |
1 step up |
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Marble, table like |
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Against the apse |
other |
A bench around the apse. |
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SB |
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12444 |
Heptapegon |
The Miracle of the Multiplying of Loaves and Fishes 2- Basilica. |
Miracle of the Multiplying of Loaves and Fishes |
Memorial |
Transept |
Sea of Galilee |
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Palaestina II |
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Facing east |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
2 |
Colonnade |
Corinthian |
Transept aisles |
Internal apse |
monoapsidal with lockable pastophoria (mon-aps II) |
apsidal |
T shaped with three openings |
See General Description for discussion regarding the chancel and the line of stones build north to south across the bema. |
1 step up |
imprints |
Marble, table like |
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On the apse cord |
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No |
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Yes |
Against the apse |
grades |
Remains of a 1.1 m. wide, graded bench attached to the apse wall. |
N & S |
A lockable room that extend east beyond the apse and is connected to the southern room by a corridor. |
Resembles the northern one; its southern part was not preserved. |
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On the apse cord |
under altar |
A block of undressed limestone is found between the imprints of the altar legs. The stone was not part of the bedrock. A cavity with iron remains indicated that a metal cross was once fixed into it and it bears traces of being deliberately chipped. It appears to be the sacred stone mentioned by Egeria apud Petrus Diaconus - the mensa domini on which, according to tradition, Christ placed the loaves and fishes. It seems that the stone was originally placed in the primitive chapel that preceded the basilica, and only part of it was placed in the basilica, under its altar. |
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A cist tomb was found below the mosaic floor next to the altar. Its legs oriented east. It seems to be a late intrusion. |
SB |
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12438 |
Heptapegon |
The Miracle of the Multiplying of Loaves and Fishes,1- Chapel. |
Miracle of the Multiplying of Loaves and Fishes |
Memorial |
Free standing |
Sea of Galilee |
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Palaestina II |
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The chapel is facing east with a slant of 28 degrees to the south relative to the main axis of the later basilica, that had replaced it. |
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External apse, round |
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apsidal |
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In the middle of the bema was found a piece of limestone, different from the basalt building material. The stone did not belong on that spot, but was brought there and placed on the bare ground. It appears to have been a fragment of the the sacred stone mentioned by Petrus Diaconus, LS V 3, on which, according to tradition, Jesus placed the loaves and fishes. When the chapel went out of use and the basilica was built, part of the stone was removed and placed under the altar of the new structure. |
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SB |
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12859 |
Beitin |
Church |
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Monastic |
Unknown |
Southern and Western Samaria |
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Palaestina I |
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AM |
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13613 |
Nazareth |
Church of St. Joseph |
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Memorial |
Free standing basilica |
Lower Galilee |
Sepphoris |
Palaestina II |
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SB |
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13671 |
Nazareth |
Church of the Annunciation |
Annunciation |
Memorial |
Basilical |
Lower Galilee |
Sepphoris |
Palaestina II |
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The Cave of Annunciation and the Chapel of Archangel Gabriel on its front were accessed from the northern aisle. A narrow cave to their west is a 3rd c. Martyrion of deacon Konon of Jerusalem, mentioned in a Greek mosaic inscription at the entrance to the cave. Behind the entrance there is a square mosaic floor with a monogram ΤΡ (staurogram). |
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Facing east |
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No |
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External apse, round |
dead end aisles (mon-aps III) |
apsidal |
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no remains |
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Hemispherical |
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N |
Elongated room; a small section of its mosaic pavement was preserved at its SW corner. |
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TB |
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13182 |
Modi'in West (temporary name) |
Church |
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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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TB |
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