026) ‘Ain Ḥajla area: Penthucla Monastery
[PADIS code 0031]
Arabic: منطقة عين حجلة
Site ancient name: Penthucla monastery (Féderlin 1903, 180; Augustinović, 110; Hirschfeld 1990, 55, site n. 36).
Site location: Lat. +31° 49' 53.08"; Long. +35° 30' 53.46" E.
Site extension: 2 dunams.
State of preservation: ruins.
Occupational period: Byzantine.
Site typology: monastery.
Public architecture: monastery (monastic cells, cisterns).
Material culture: mosaic tesserae, glass, Terra Sigillata Ware, pottery.
Bibliography: Féderlin 1903, 133-180; Augustinović 1951, 110, 199-200; Hirschfeld 1990, 55, site n. 36.
Plates: I, III, XXXVIII.
Bibliography
| Augustinović, A. | |
| 1951 | Gerico e dintorni, Jerusalem 1951 (in particular pp. 110, 199-200). |
| 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. 133-180). |
| 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 p. 55, site n. 36). |