017) ‘Ain el-Gharabe (Chorembe?)
[PADIS code 0028]
Site ancient name: Chorembe (after Augustinović 1951, 169-170; Hirschfeld 1990, 55, site n. 38); Soubiba of the Syrians (after Féderlin 1903, 299-300, contra Hirschfeld 1990, 55; Sion 1996, 252).
Site location: Lat. +31° 50' 46.49" N; Long. +35° 30' 6.03" E.
Site extension: 2 dunams.
State of preservation: ruins.
Occupational period: Byzantine.
Site typology: monastery.
Public architecture: monastery (rooms, lime kiln).
Funerary architecture: graves.
Material culture: architectural features (bricks), mosaic tesserae, glass, pottery.
Bibliography: Féderlin 1903, 299-300; Augustinović 1951, 111-112, 168-170; Hirschfeld 1990, 55, site n. 38.
Plates: I, III, XXXVII.
Bibliography
| Augustinović, A. | |
| 1951 | Gerico e dintorni, Jerusalem 1951 (in particular pp. 111-112, 168-170). |
| Féderlin, J.L. | |
| 1903 | "Recherches sur les laures et monastères de la plaine du Jourdain et du désert de Jérusalem", in La Terre Sainte 20 (1903), pp. 117-331 (in particular pp. 299-300). |
| Hirschfeld, Y. | |
| 1990 | "List of the Byzantine Monasteries in the Judean Desert", in G.C. Bottini - L. Di Segni - E. Alliata (eds.), Christian Archaeology in the Holy Land - New Discoveries. Essays in Honour of Virgilio C. Corbo, OFM (Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Collectio Maior 36), Jerusalem 1990, pp. 1-90 (in particular p. 55, site n. 38). |
| Sion, O. | |
| 1996 | "The Monasteries of the Desert of the Jordan", in Liber Annuus 46 (1996), pp. 245-264 (in particular p. 252). |