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Zev Radovan, courtesy Yizhar Hirschfeld
Khirbet ed-Deir also contained a cave tomb with a small chapel at its entrance. A mosaic with a scallop design at top and elaborate geometric patterns decorates the floor of the chapel. An inscription inside a tabula ansata (a rectangle flanked by inward-pointing triangles) asks visitors to “intercede for peace for this place and for our souls.”