Church of George Complete
ID: 120
Building type: church
Context:
church; village
Inscriptions:
Description:
The church has a three-aisled plan and stands within a courtyard, accompanied by additional ecclesiastical structures. Within the interior, varied depictions occupy four principal zones: the presbytery, the nave, the eastern terminus of the north aisle, and the southern sacristy. The inscription is set in the sacristy on the south side of the central apse. A total of six inscriptions are preserved inside the building: five in Greek and one bilingual (Greek and CPA). The site came to scholarly notice in 1935 through the Franciscan Jerome Mihaic and was subsequently subjected to detailed study by Sylvester Saller. A plan of the church is published in Michel 2001, p. 341. For further reference: - Michel, A. 2001. Les églises d’époque byzantine et umayyade de Jordanie (provinces d’Arabie et de Palestine), Ve–VIIIe siècle: typologie architecturale et aménagements liturgiques (avec catalogue des monuments; préface de Noël Duval; premessa di Michele Piccirillo), Turnhout. - Saller S.J. & Bagatti B. 1949. The Town of Nebo (Khirbet el-Mekhayyat): with a brief survey of other Christian monuments in Transjordan. (Publications of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, 7), Jerusalem.