065) Nestorian Hermitage
[PADIS code 0036]
Arabic: الخلوة النسطورية
Site location: Lat. +31° 51' 53.94" N; Long. +35° 29' 50.89" E.
Site extension: 1 dunam.
State of preservation: ruins.
Occupational period: Byzantine/Early Islamic.
Site typology: hermitage.
Public architecture: hermitage.
Material culture: mosaics with Syriac inscriptions, cultic furniture.
Bibliography: Avi-Yonah 1935; Baramki - Stephan 1935; Augustinović 1951, 158; Hirschfeld 1990, 73, site D; Cohen 1993.
Plates: I, III.
Bibliography
| Augustinović, A. | |
| 1951 | Gerico e dintorni, Jerusalem 1951 (in particular p. 158). |
| Avi-Yonah, M. | |
| 1935 | "Mosaic pavements in Palestine", in Quarterly of the Department of Antiquity in Palestine 4, Second Suppl. (1935), p. 189. |
| Baramki, D.C. - Stephan, H. | |
| 1935 | "A Nestorian Hermitage between Jericho and the Jordan", in Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine 4 (1935), pp. 81-86. |
| Cohen, R. | |
| 1993 | "Jericho. The Nestorian Hermitage", in E. Stern (ed.), New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, Vol. 3, Jerusalem 1993, p. 1068. |
| 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. 73, site D). |