Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Atiqot
Angaben zur Quelle:
107 (2022) 153-197
Schlagwort(e):
Earthquakes
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Pottery
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Christians History To 1500
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Avdat (Extinct city) (Israel) Antiquities
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Eretz Israel Antiquities, Byzantine
Kurzfassung:
Three excavation areas were opened in ‘Avedat National Park, revealing important evidence regarding the effects of earthquakes on the Byzantine-period occupation at the site. In Area B, near the South Church, rooms were added on the exterior of an earlier building in the early fifth century CE, next to a heavy revetment wall. The exterior of a wall covered with red-painted (dipiniti) Christian motifs was uncovered in front of a cave, pointing to its use as a stable by a monastic community. It seems that this wall underwent structural damage, probably due to the early fifth-century CE earthquake. The site was destroyed by an earthquake at the end of the late Byzantine period, presumably in the first half of the seventh century CE.
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