Monastery? Complete
ID: 202
Building type: unknown
Context:
rural; monastic
Inscriptions:
Description:
Two crosses appear within the mosaic pavement: one, white in color, is set inside a circular border composed of black, red, and yellow tesserae; the other is associated with the Greek letters Alpha and Omega (cf. CIIP V 6055). Adjacent to the circular white cross lies the CPA inscription catalogued as CIIP V 6054. The inscription is embedded in the mosaic floor. Image source: https://dig.corps-cmhl.huji.ac.il/node/12528 Further references: - CIIP V 6054 - Desreumaux, A. 1979. Les matériaux du syro-palestinien. Pour une étude théorique des documents d'un dialecte, thèse dactylographiée, Paris X-Nanterre. - Desreumaux, A. 1987. "La naissance d’une nouvelle écriture araméenne à l’époque byzantine", Semitica 37: 95–107. - Bir el Khazna in: A Digital Corpus of Early Christian Churches and Monasteries in the Holy Land (https://dig.corps-cmhl.huji.ac.il/node/12528)