012) Abu Hindi, Tell area: St. Andrew's Church
[PADIS code 0046]
Arabic: (تل ابو هندي (كنيسة القديس اندراوس
Site location: Lat. +31° 51' 12.61" N; Long. +35° 27' 1.41" E.
Site extension: 0.75 dunams.
Extension: 25 m (north-south) × 30 m (east-west).
State of preservation: ruins, partly under modern cultivations.
Disturbance: modern cultivations.
Occupational periods: Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic, Middle Islamic.
Plates: I, III.
Roman (Herodian) Period
Site typology: architectural remains.
Public architecture: pool, cisterns.
Material culture: terracotta jars.
Bibliography: Meinardus 1966, 183-184.
Byzantine Period
Site typology: church.
Public architecture: St. Andrew's Church (25 m north-south x 30 m east-west), monastic cells.
Funerary architecture: tombs.
Material culture: mosaics with Greek inscriptions, stone witch cufic (?) inscription, iron cross, stone cultic furniture, stone vessel.
Bibliography: Augustinović 1950, 265; 1951, 77-83; Meinardus 1966; Ovadiah 1970, 73-74; Cirelli - Zagari 2000, 366; Zagari 2000, 356.
Early Islamic Period
Site typology: church.
Public architecture: St. Andrew's Church.
Material culture: head of a female statue, marble furniture with Arabic inscription, pottery.
Bibliography: Meinardus 1966, 193.
Middle Islamic Period
Site typology: church.
Public architecture: St. Andrew's Church.
Material culture: pottery.
Bibliography: Meinardus 1966, 194.
Bibliography
Augustinović, A. | |
1950 | "Note su Gerico Bizantina", in La Terra Santa 25/9 (1950), pp. 264-266 (in particular p. 265). |
1951 | Gerico e dintorni, Jerusalem 1951 (in particular pp. 77-83). |
Cirelli, E. - Zagari, F. | |
2000 | "L'oasi di Gerico in età bizantina e islamica. Problemi e proposte di ricerca", in Archeologia Medievale 27 (2000), pp. 365-376 (in particular p. 366). |
Meinardus, O. | |
1966 | The Byzantine Church of St. Andrew in Jericho (Extrait du Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte, XVIII), Le Caire 1966. |
Ovadiah, A. | |
1970 | Corpus of Byzantine Churches in the Holy Land (Theophaneia. Beiträge zur religions- und Kirchengeschichte des Altertums 22), Bonn 1970 (in particular pp. 73-74). |
Zagari, F. | |
2000 | "Appendix H: Remarks on the Byzantine occupation of Tell es-Sultan", in N. Marchetti - L. Nigro (eds.), Excavations at Jericho, 1998. Preliminary Report on the Second Season of Archaeological Excavations and Surveys at Tell es-Sultan, Palestine (Quaderni di Gerico 2), Rome 2000, pp. 355-381 (in particular p. 356). |