Monastery chapel
| Name of structure: | Monastery chapel |
| Extended name of structure: | |
| Type of structure: | Chapel |
| Country or main area: | Israel |
| Region within country or main area: | 12k SE of Jerusalem |
| City or area within region: | Herodium: Jeeel Fureidis |
| Date of structure: | 5th - 6th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 5 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 6 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Niche |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | n the southern wall, in front of the apse, there is another small niche in which there are many fragments of glass. |
| Date of mosaic: | 5th-6th century? |
| Century of mosaic 1: | |
| Century of mosaic 2: | |
| Silver tessera at site: | |
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| Colour tessera at site: | |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | |
| Has analysis been done? | |
| Samples taken from where? | |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | The site has been excavated by V. Corbo, on behalf of the Italian Foreign Office in 1962-67 |
| 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 p. 218 |
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| Comments: | This entry is very speculative - need more information. |
| Record Incomplete | |