Past Discovery

The site was first excavated in 1954 and again in four seasons between 1959 and 1962 by
Y. Aharoni on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel Exploration Society, the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Rome.

Byzantine Church and the monastery

Byzantine pottery, stratum IIA

Byzantine store-jar

Plaster of courtyard (760) of roman villa

2 Pillars made of tilles impressed with the stamp of the
tenth Roman Legion in hypocaust of bath-house

Romman terracota bowls impressed faces

Colombarium cave with proto-Aeolic capital, reuesd as altar

Burial cave

Enterence to Byzantine cistern

Ossuaries in locus

Decorated Ossuaries of locus