Archaeological sites

Catalogue of the sites in the Jericho Oasis and surroundings

More than one hundred archaeological sites and monuments, and as many between scattered tombs, caves and ruins, dating back from the Late Natufian (10,500 BC) up the end of the Ottoman Period (1918 AD), have been visited, recorded and surveyed by travellers and historians, and at times probed and excavated by archaeologists in the area of the Jericho Oasis and its immediate surroundings.

As regards toponomastic, modern names in Arabic were privileged, usually with a simplified writing due to Latin characters. In the catalogue there are an absolute PADIS number, followed by the site ancient name (when present), geographic coordinates and elevation of their location, site extension, registered modern disturbance, and recorded occupational periods. For each recorded occupational period, a detailed catalogue of relative archaeological evidence is listed: site typology, public architecture, domestic architecture, funerary architecture, and material culture, arranged according to main categories of finds. A thorough list of bibliographic references follows each occupational period.

1) Abu el-'Alayiq North, Tell

2) Abu el-'Alayiq North, Tell area: Byzantine building

3) Abu el-'Alayiq North, Tell area: Columbarium Tower

4) Abu el-'Alayiq North, Tell area: pool

5) Abu el-'Alayiq North, Tell area: large wine press

6) Abu el-'Alayiq North, Tell area: mosaic wine press

7) Abu el-'Alayiq South, Tell

8) Abu el-'Alayiq South, Tulul area: Late Hellenistic and Roman aqueduct

9) Abu Ghannam, Tell

10) Abu Hindi, Tell/Tell Mitri

11) Abu Hindi, Tell area: Anthimos' Church

12) Abu Hindi, Tell area: St. Andrew's Church

13) Abu Khurs, Tell

14) Abu Zelef, Tell

15) 'Ain Duq/Na'aran

16) 'Ain Duq area

17) 'Ain el-Gharabe (Chorembe)

18) 'Ain el-Gharabe: Byzantine bridge

19) 'Ain el-Auja

20) 'Ain en-Nu'eima

21) 'Ain es-Sultan (Elisha's Spring)

22) 'Ain es-Sultan area: mills

23) 'Ain Hajla (Beth Hoglah)

24) 'Ain Hajla area: Byzantine house

25) 'Ain Hajla area: Monastery of the Towers (Pyrgoi)

26) 'Ain Hajla area: Penthucla Monastery

27) 'Ain Hajla area: unidentified monastery

28) 'Ain Hajla area: Deir Mar Yuhanna Hajla (Calamon)

29) 'Ain Yunis

30) 'Ain Yunis area: unidentified monastery

31) 'Aqaba, Tell el- (Cypros)

32) 'Aqaba, Tell el- area: Late Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine aqueducts & ci

33) Arays, Tell el-

34) Baptism Place/Makhadat al-Hajla

35) Beit Jabr el-Fauqani/Manzel Jabr

36) Beit Jabr et-Tahtani

37) Birket Gilgiuliyeh

38) Birket Musa

39) Burg er-Riha

40) Deir Hajla/Deir Mar Gerasimus (St. Gerasimus' Monastery)

41) Deir Mar Jariys/Deir el-Qelt (St. George's Monastery or Monastery of Choziba)

42) Deir Mar Jariys/Deir el-Qelt area: Late Hellenistic and Roman aqueduct

43) Franciscan Custodian in Ariha: mosaic

44) Jaljuliya, Teleilat

45) Jurn, Tell el-

46) Hassan, Tell el-

47) Hassan, Tell el- area

48) Jaljul, Tell area

49) Ketef Yeriho (Ketef Ariha)

50) Mafjar, Khirbet el-/Qasr Hisham

51) Mafjar, Khirbet el- area: Byzantine monastery

52) Mafjar, Khirbet el- area: monastic cells

53) Mafjar, Khirbet el- /Tell el-Jurn area: Synagogue of Shahwan

54) Mafjar, Tell el-

55) Mafjar, Tell el- area

56) Maqam al-Imam 'Ali

57) Maqam an-Nabi Musa & cemetery (Maqame Hasan al-Ra'i & 'Aisha)

58) Matlab, Tell el-

59) Matlab, Tell el- area: Byzantine house

60) Matlab Segeir, Tell el-

61) Mughr el-Maqrabanna (cemetery)

62) Na'aran, Khirbet (Naaran, Neara, Doq)

63) Na'aran, Khirbet area (cliff)

64) Na'aran, Khirbet area: Late Hellenistic and Roman aqueduct (Na'aran Channel)

65) Nestorian Hermitage

66) Nitla, Khirbet en-/Tell Jaljul (Galgala)

67) Nuseib 'Uweishira/Ramot A

68) Orthodox Church in Ariha: mosaic

69) Qaqun, Khirbet

70) Qasr el-Yehud (St. John the Baptist , Prodromos)

71) Qasr Hajla

72) Qasr Hajla area: mosaic

73) Qasr Hajla area: unidentified building

74) Qos, Tell el-

75) Quruntul, Jebel: the fortress of Dock/Duyuk

76) Quruntul, Jebel/Deir Quruntel: Monastery of Temptation (Douka)

77) Quruntul, Jebel area: Late hellenistic and Roman aqueduct & cisterns

78) Rujm el-Mugheifir North

79) Rujm el-Mugheifir South/Tell el-Kursi

80) Rujm el-Mugheifir area: Byzantine aqueduct

81) Russian Inn

82) Samarat, Tell es-

83) Samarat, Tell es- area: Roman villa

84) Sheikh Ameri

85) Sultan, Tell es-

86) Sultan, Tell es- area: Byzantine aqueduct

87) Sultan, Tell es- area: unidentified building

88) Sultan, Tell es- area: unidentified building

89) Sultan, Tell es- area: unidentified monastery

90) Suwwanet eth-Thaniya/Jiser Abu Ghabush

91) Tahunet el-Mafjar

92) Tawaheen es-Sukkar

93) Vered Yeriho/Zubube

94) Wadi el-Makhamas

95) Wadi Ghor el-Murrar area: unidentified monastery

96) Wadi en-Nu'eima

97) Wadi Qelt (eastern bank): Laura of the Aeliotes

98) Wadi Qelt (eastern bank): Laura of Peter

99) Wadi Qelt (eastern bank): Soubiba of the Bessians

100) Wadi Qelt (eastern bank): Soubiba of the Syrians

101) Wadi Qelt (eastern bank): unidentified monastery

102) Wadi Qelt (eastern bank): unidentified site

103) Zuayat

104) Caves in Jebel Quruntul area

105) Caves in Abu Saraj Cliff