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My thanks to Phyllis Arnburn who first called my attention to the question discussed in this article. She was in charge of pottery restoration during the 1986 excavations at Ein Yael.
The Monastery of the Cross was founded at the end of the fifth century and subsequently destroyed. It was rebuilt during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian in the sixth century.
The icon shows the Holy Places and the events associated with them in correct geographical location and topographical setting, and it is oriented toward the east. The scene of the baptism is found to the right of the Monastery of the Holy Cross and slightly lower. It is therefore to be located southwest of the monastery.
Endnotes
See W.E. Vine, An Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1984), p. 289.
Edward Robinson and Eli Smith, Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea (London: 1841), vol. 2, p. 641, and F.F. Bruce, The Acts of the Apostles (London, 1951).
Eusebius, Onomasticon 104:31, “The Bordeaux Pilgrim,” Itinerary from Bordeaux to Jerusalem, Palestine Pilgrim’s Text Society, vol. I (London, 1896); Jerome, Epistle 103.