051) Mafjar, Khirbet el- area: Byzantine monastery
[PADIS code 0158]
Arabic: منطقة خربة المفجر: ديربيزنطي
Site location: Lat. +31° 52' 36.85" N; Long. +35° 28' 8.66" E.
Site extension: less than 10 dunams.
State of preservation: ruins.
Occupational period: Byzantine.
Site typology: monastery (Elias' Monastery, after Sion 1996, 249 = Sion's site C).
Public architecture: monastery (monastic cells).
Bibliography: Sion 1996, 249, 262, site C.
Plates: I, XXXVIII.
Bibliography
| Sion, O. | |
| 1996 | "The Monasteries of the Desert of the Jordan", in Liber Annuus 46 (1996), pp. 245-264 (in particular pp. 249, 262, site C). |