098) Wadi Qelt (eastern bank): Laura of Peter
[PADIS code 0042]
Arabic: وادي القلط (الضفة الشرقية): خلوة بيتر
Site ancient name: Laura of Peter (after Hirschfeld 1990, 55, site n. 37; Sion's site I [Sion 1996, 253]).
Site location: Lat. +31° 50' 23.51" N; Long. +35° 30' 36.79" E.
Site extension: 1.5 dunams.
State of preservation: preserved.
Occupational period: Byzantine.
Site typology: monastery.
Public architecture: monastery (central structure, monastic cells).
Bibliography: Féderlin 1903, 133, 197; Augustinović 1951, 111; Hirschfeld 1990, 55, site n. 37; Sion 1996, 253, site I, fig. 3.
Plates: I, XXXVII-XXXVIII.
Bibliography
| Augustinović, A. | |
| 1951 | Gerico e dintorni, Jerusalem 1951 (in particular pp. 111-113). |
| Bar-Adon, P. | |
| 1972 | "The Survey in the Judean Desert and Jericho Valleys", in M. Kochavi (ed.), Judea, Samaria, Golan, Archaeological Survey in the Year 5728, Jerusalem 1972, pp. 92-149. |
| 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, 197, 299). |
| 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. 37). |
| Sion, O. | |
| 1996 | "The Monasteries of the Desert of the Jordan", in Liber Annuus 46 (1996), pp. 245-264 (in particular p. 253, site I, figs. 1, 3). |