ʿAyn Ǧallāl is a site in Kharga Oasis, situated 1.6km south of Dayr al-Baǧawāt and 600 m west of the northernmost documented remains of the ancient town of Hibis on the site of ʿAyn al-Ṭurba. It consists of two sectors, one in the north and one in the south. Understood to have operated as a monastic complex, the site is part of the ‘monastic belt’ of Hibis formed along with Dayr al-Baǧawāt, Dayr Muṣṭafā Kāšif and ʿAyn Saʿaf-East. The archaeological work carried out has been limited, and much of the documentation has been lost, severely limiting possible interpretations.

Northern Sector
The interior fittings of the northern sector support the hypothesis that it functioned as a xenodocheion (Ghica 2012: 206). Included in this compound can be recognised the following spaces: a church with a single nave and double access, a baptistery with a baptismal font decorated with a painted crux ansata, as well as a number of bedrooms, kitchens, bread ovens, and rooms with undetermined uses. One of these rooms for which a sufficient interpretation could not be established, located in the N-E corner of the building, housed a number of late phase masonry tombs.

Southern Sector
The southern sector is understood to have operated as a monastery, with at least two major construction phases identifiable. The compound includes a church with a basilical plan, equipped with an esonarthex, and likely a baptistery in the N-W corner. Additionally, in the S-E corner, there is an aedicule-topped dome, below which lies a crypt (Ghica 2012: 206). Like in the Northern Sector, there are also a number of bread ovens. Several staircases have been identified, and the thickness of the walls in the middle of the structure has led to the supposition that there was a tower, a typical architectural feature of monastic architecture.

Unfortunately, due to the absence of stratigraphic excavation, datable material and radiocarbon dates, only architectural and decorative features can be considered as tools for dating the structures. The absence of a western return aisle in the church of the Southern Structure suggest an architectural traditional prior to the development of the Egyptian basilical plan in the fifth and sixth centuries (Ghica 2012: 208). Given certain similarities to the Western Church at Ismant al-Ḫarāb (single nave of the church in the N sector), as well as the analysis of ceramics by Z. Barahona Mendieta, a fourth to fifth century foundation date has been given to the site (Ghica 2012: 210).