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| Name of structure: | Unknown |
| Extended name of structure: | |
| Type of structure: | Church? Workshop? |
| Country or main area: | Israel |
| Region within country or main area: | northern ‘Akko plain, slightly over 1 km west of Qibbuz Kabri and 2.5 km east of Nahariya |
| City or area within region: | Et-Tuweiri |
| Date of structure: | |
| Century of structure 1: | |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Specific place of mosaic: | concentrated in the northeast quadrant of the site were hundreds of very small glass, colored stones and ceramic tesserae (average size 5 × 5 × 7 mm); some of the glass tesserae contained a gold leaf. |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | The c. 500 pieces of glass tesserae were made of bluish green, green, dark blue, cobalt blue, yellow, yellowish green, emerald green, brown and red glass, as well as colourless glass that sometimes has a light yellowish hue. Most tesserae were of translucent glass and a minority was of opaque glass. A significant component of the tesserae were gold-glass tesserae, composed of two glass layers, a thick bottom layer and a very thin upper one, usually colourless or yellowish, with a thin golden sheet inserted between them |
| Date of mosaic: | 5th-6th C ??? |
| Century of mosaic 1: | |
| Century of mosaic 2: | |
| Silver tessera at site: | Unknown |
| Gold tessera at site: | Yes |
| Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | |
| Has analysis been done? | |
| Samples taken from where? | |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | During October 2004, a limited excavation was conducted in the fields of Qibbuz Kabri, south of the Byzantine site of et-Tuweiri (Permit No. A-4258*; map ref. NIG 21260–80/76980–90; OIG 16260–80/26980–90), prior to the planting of an avocado orchard. The excavation, on behalf of the Antiquities Authority and partially funded by Qibbuz Kabri, was directed by Howard Smithline (photography), with the assistance of A. Shapiro (surveying), Y. Nagar (physical anthropology), L. Porat (pottery restoration), H. Tahan (pottery drawing), N. Zak (drafting), Y. Gorin-Rosen (glass) and L. di Segni (inscription reading). |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Hadashot Arkheologiyot, 119 (2007) |
| URLs: | http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detail_Eng.aspx?id=515&mag_id=112 |
| Comments: | The church, located on the southern periphery of this large Byzantine site was destroyed and abandoned in the first half of the seventh century CE. |
| Record Incomplete | |