2.05 Rafid — chapel – Northeast Insulae Project

G. Schumacher, The Jaulan, London (1888) Plan fig. 115

Location
Description
A structure with an apse, probably a church in the opinion of Schumacher. The orientation is west to east. Attached to the chapel are rooms whose nature is not mentioned. The entrance to the chapel was through one· opening in the west. The construction is partly dressed stones, partly uncut stones without cement. In the rubble there are: keystones and other stones which, according to the shape, prove that the apse ended in a conch.

Asher Ovadiah, “Supplementum to the Corpus of the Byzantine Churches in the Holy Land (Part 1),” Levant 13 (1981): 251.
Phasing
Bibliogaphy

Apse
- Protruding apse
Chancel
- unknown (surveyed, not excavated)
Furnishings/decoration
- Surveyed not excavated
Flooring
Entrances
- Single west entrance
Annexed spaces
- Attached south chapel to the west (apse may have been added in a second phase)
Baptistry (if present)
- none
Mulholland protocol
Constantinopolitan
- Protruding apse
- Entrances from the east on either side of the apse
- Π-shaped chancel
- Multiple entrances on all sides
- Ambo on the south
- Exterior chapel to the north
Syrian
- Π-shaped chancel
- Inscribed mono-apsidal
- Room on both sides of the apse
- West entrance
- Ambo on south
- Baptistry in room south of the apse or in the south aisle
- Separate south chapel
- South entrances from side rooms/chapels
Roman
- Τ-shaped or bar-shaped chancel
- Tri-apsidal usually inscribed
- Altars in the side apses
- Relics and Reliquaries
- Ambo to the north
- Baptistry outside off the atrium or the north aisle
- Marble furnishings (high status imperial association) and imported fine wares
- Decorative elements on chancel screens [specify]
- Separate north chapel
Syrian to Roman conversion
- Τ-shaped or bar-shaped chancel replacing Π-shaped chancel
- Side apses inserted into rooms adjacent to the main apse
- Separate north chapel (suppressed south chapel)
- Liturgical furniture with decorative motifs like those at St. Clemente in Rome