041) Deir Mar Jariys/Deir el-Qelt (St. George's Monastery or Monastery of Choziba)
[PADIS code 0015]
Arabic: دير مار جريس / دير القلط (دير القديس جورجيوس أو دير كوزيبا
Site ancient name: St. George's Monastery or Monastery of Choziba.
Site location: Lat. +31° 50' 37.22" N; Long. +35° 24' 39.33" E.
Site extension: 10 dunams.
State of preservation: preserved.
Occupational periods: Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Crusader, Ottoman, Modern.
Plates: I, III, XXXIX, XLI-XLIII.
Hellenistic Period
Site typology: aqueduct.
Public architecture: aqueduct.
Bibliography: Meshel - Amit 2002, fig. 1a.
Roman Period
Site typology: aqueduct.
Public architecture: aqueduct.
Domestic architecture: caves, cisterns.
Material culture: pottery.
Bibliography: Patrich 1987-1988, 66; 1990, 208, note 24.
Byzantine Period
Site typology: monastery.
Public architecture: monastery (coenobium, chapel, monastic cells).
Funerary architecture: cave.
Material culture: frescoes with Greek inscriptions (chapel), mosaics with Greek inscriptions, inscriptions (cave).
Bibliography: Marti 1880, 12-13; Conder - Kitchener 1883, 179, 181, 192-198; Athanasiades 1895; Clermont-Ganneau 1896, 29-32; Vailhé 1898, 108-112, 117; Schneider 1931; Ovadiah 1970, 50; Meimaris 1978, 186-188; Ovadiah - de Silva 1981, 213-214; 1982, 137; Hirschfeld 1990, 29-31, site n. 15, figs. 33-34; 1992, 36-38, 113-114, 135-136, 207-208; Patrich 1987-1988, 66, figs. 26-27; 1990; Nigro, F. 1998, 208; Donceel-Voûte 1999, 87.
Crusader Period
Site typology: monastery.
Public architecture: monastery.
Material culture: frescoes.
Bibliography: Schneider 1931; Benvenisti 1970, 365; Meimaris 1978, 173-174.
Ottoman/Modern Period
Site typology: monastery.
Public architecture: monastery.
Material culture: paintings, Greek and Arabic inscriptions.
Bibliography: Sion 1996, 259; Yahya 2007, 6-8.
Bibliography
| Athanasiades, K. | |
| 1895 | ‘Η Ιερα Μονητου Χοζεβα, Athens 1895. |
| Benvenisti, M. | |
| 1970 | The Crusaders in the Holy Land, Jerusalem 1970 (in particular p. 365). |
| Clermont-Ganneau, C. | |
| 1896 | Archaeological Research in Palestine During the Years 1873-1874, Vol. II, London 1896 (in particular pp. 29-32). |
| Conder, C.R. - Kitchener, H.H. | |
| 1883 | The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Volume III. Sheets XVII-XXVI. Judaea, London 1883 (in particular pp. 179, 181, 192-198). |
| Donceel-Voûte, P. | |
| 1999 | "L'Hérodion, l'église de la Nativité, les premiers monastères chrétiens", in Dossier d'Archéologie 240 (Jan./Fév. 1999), pp. 78-87 (in particular p. 87). |
| 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 29-31, site n. 15, figs. 33-34). |
| 1992 | The Judean Desert Monasteries in the Byzantine Period, New Haven - London 1992 (in particular pp. 36-38, 113-114, 135-136, 207-208). |
| Marti, K. | |
| 1880 | "Mittheilungen von Barauth C. Schick in Jerusalem über die alten Lauren und Klöster in der Wüste Juda", in Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 3 (1880), pp. 1-43 (in particular pp. 12-13). |
| Meimaris, Y. | |
| 1978 | "The Hermitage of St. John the Chozibite, Deir Wadi el-Qilt", in Liber Annuus 28 (1978), pp. 171-192, pls. 35-46. |
| Meshel, Z. - Amit, D. | |
| 2002 | "The water-supply of the Cypros Fortress", in D. Amit - J. Patrich - Y. Hirschfeld (eds.), The Aqueducts of Israel (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementum 46), Portsmouth 2002, pp. 313-329. |
| Nigro, F. | |
| 1998 | "Il parco archeologico per la conservazione e la valorizzazione di Tell es-Sultan, antica Gerico", in N. Marchetti - L. Nigro (eds.), Scavi a Gerico, 1997. Relazione preliminare sulla prima campagna di scavi e prospezioni archeologiche a Tell es-Sultan, Palestina (Quaderni di Gerico I), Rome 1998, pp. 205-229 (in particular p. 208). |
| Ovadiah, A. | |
| 1970 | Corpus of Byzantine Churches in the Holy Land (Theophaneia. Beiträge zur religions- und Kirchengeschichte des Altertums 22), Bonn 1970 (in particular p. 50). |
| Ovadiah, A. - de Silva, C.G. | |
| 1981 | "Supplement of the Corpus of the Byzantine Churches in the Holy Land (Part I)", in Levant 13 (1981), pp. 200-261 (in particular pp. 213-214). |
| 1982 | "Supplement of the Corpus of the Byzantine Churches in the Holy Land Part II: Updated Material on Churched discussed in the Corpus", in Levant 14 (1982), pp. 122-170 (in particular p. 137). |
| Patrich, J. | |
| 1987-1988 | "Judean Desert, Survey of Caves – 1985-1986", in Excavations and Surveys in Israel 6 (1987/88), pp. 66-70 (in particular p. 66). |
| 1990 | "The Cells (Ta Kellia) of Choziba, Wadi el-Qilt", 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. 205-226. |
| Schneider, A.M. | |
| 1931 | "Das Klostere der Theotokos zu Choziba im Wadi Qelt", in Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und für Kirchengeschichte 39 (1931), pp. 297-332. |
| Sion, O. | |
| 1996 | "The Monasteries of the Desert of the Jordan", in Liber Annuus 46 (1996), pp. 245-264 (in particular p. 259). |
| Vailhe, S. | |
| 1898 | "Les Laures de Sainte Gérasime et de Calamon", in Échos d'Orient 1898, pp. 106-119 (in particular pp. 112-119). |
| Yahya, A. | |
| 2007 | PACE Tourguide of Jericho & Vicinity. Historical, Archaeological and Religious Sites, Ramallah 2007 (in particular pp. 6-8). |