089) Sultan, Tell es- area: unidentified monastery

Site location: 1 km south-east of Tell es-Sultan.

Site extension: 2.4 dunams.

State of preservation: ruins.

Disturbance: modern cultivations.

Occupational period: Byzantine.

Site typology: monastery.

Public architecture: monastery (monastic cells, cisterns).

Material culture: polished marbles, mosaic tesserae, sundial, glass, pottery.

Bibliography: Augustinović 1951, 182-183; Sion 1996, 251, site B.

Bibliography

Augustinović, A.
1951	Gerico e dintorni, Jerusalem 1951 (in particular pp. 182-183).
Sion, O.
1996	"The Monasteries of the Desert of the Jordan", in Liber Annuus 46 (1996), pp. 245-264 (in particular p. 251, site B).