025) ‘Ain Ḥajla area: Monastery of the Towers (Pyrgoi)
[PADIS code 0037]
Arabic: منطقة عين حجلة: كنيسة
Site ancient name: Pyrgoi (Féderlin 1903, 181-182; Hirschfeld 1990, 46, site n. 29 = Sion's site L [Sion 1996, 251]).
Site location: Lat. +31° 49' 31.55" N; Long. +35° 30' 44.23" E.
Site extension: 2 dunams.
State of preservation: ruins.
Occupational period: Byzantine.
Site typology: monastery.
Public architecture: monastery (rectangular building, monastic cells, water reservoir).
Material culture: marble furniture, mosaic tesserae, pottery.
Bibliography: Féderlin 1903, 180-182; Augustinović 1951, 112-113, 198; Bar-Adon 1972, 116-117, site n. 74B, fig. 7; Hirschfeld 1990, 45-46, site n. 29, fig. 54; Sion 1996, 251, 262, site L, photo 5.
Plates: I, XXXVIII.
Bibliography
| Augustinović, A. | |
| 1951 | Gerico e dintorni, Jerusalem 1951 (in particular pp. 112-113, 198). |
| Bar-Adon, P. | |
| 1972 | "The Survey in the Judean Desert and Jericho Valleys", in M. Kochavi (ed.), Judea, Samaria, Golan, Archaeological Survey in the Year 5728, Jerusalem 1972, pp. 92-149 (in particular pp. 116-117, site n. 74B, fig. 7). |
| 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. 180-182). |
| Hirschfeld, Y. | |
| 1990 | "List of the Monasteries of the Judean Desert", in G.C. Bottini - L. Di Segni - E. Alliata (eds.), Christian Archaeology in the Holy Land - New Discoveries. Essays in Hounour of Virgilio C. Corbo, OFM (Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Collectio Maior 36), Jerusalem 1990, pp. 1-90 (in particular pp. 45-46, site n. 29, fig. 54). |
| Sion, O. | |
| 1996 | "The Monasteries of the Desert of the Jordan", in Liber Annuus 46 (1996), pp. 245-264 (in particular pp. 251, 262, site L, photo 5). |