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PHOTO COURTESY OF MARGARET A. JUDD

THE CHAPEL OF ROBEBUS, located to the east of the Mt. Nebo basilica and named after the abbot mentioned in the chapel’s dedicatory inscription, contains a large funerary crypt that held the disarticulated remains of nearly two dozen individuals. As the inscription clarifies, the buried individuals were some of the monastery’s resident monks. Excavation and analysis of the remains has revealed much about the health and makeup of Mt. Nebo’s monastic community during the Byzantine period.