Beersheba church

Name of structure: Beersheba church
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Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Israel
Region within country or main area: Northern Negev
City or area within region: Beersheba
Date of structure: Byzantine
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Specific place of mosaic: Walls
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Rooms in the south of the church, one of which was embellished in its time with a sumptuous wall mosaic made principally of coloured glass tesserae.
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Colour tessera at site: Yes
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The church was first discovered in 1948; excavated by Yael Israeli on behalf of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums in 1968.
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Ovadiah, Asher and Carla Gomez de Silva, ‘ Supplementum – Corpus of the Byzantine Churches in the Holy Land, pt. 1, Levant, 14 (1982), 200-261, see pp. 207-8
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