009) Abu Ghannam, Tell

Site extension: 10 dunams.

State of preservation: partly preserved, partly under modern edification.

Disturbance: modern building activities.

Occupational periods: Byzantine, Crusader (re-used).

Site typology: monastery compound.

Public architecture: churches.

Material culture: mosaics, pottery.

Bibliography: Bliss 1894, 177; excavations carried out by the Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in 2004.

Bibliography

Bliss, F.J.
1894	"Notes on the plain of Jericho", in Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 26 (1894), pp. 174-183 (in particular p. 177).
Unpublished data from excavations carried out by the Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in 2003.