Synagogue Complete

ID: 129

Building type: broadhouse synagogue

Context:

rural

Site:

Inscriptions:

206

Description:

A lintel carved with a seven-branched menorah, together with a surviving niche, represents the principal remains of a synagogue that has not yet been excavated. In addition, a separate stone fragment preserves part of an inscription in Aramaic. For further discussion, see: - Marilyn Joyce Segal Chiat, Handbook of Synagogue Architecture (Chico, California: Scholars Press, Brown University, 1982), 296–297. - D. W. Milson, Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Late Antique Palestine. In the Shadow of the Church (Leiden, 2007), 446.