Unknown (synagogue or private houses?) Complete
ID: 193
Building type: unknown
Context:
urban
Description:
Indeterminate structure (possibly a synagogue or domestic buildings) Context: urban setting Type of SVG plan: Description: A capital was recovered in reuse from the pavement of the north aisle of a twelfth-century church dating to the Crusader period. Its original placement was most likely in a synagogue. Additional stone pieces bearing Samaritan Aramaic inscriptions may stem from that same synagogue, though they could equally have been taken from other structures, such as private houses. For further reference: CIIP IV, Emmaus, Nicopolis (modern ‘Imwas), pp. 441–449. Barag, D., 2009, Samaritan writing and writings, in: Hanna M. Cotton, Robert G. Hoyland, J. J. Price, and David J. Wasserstein (eds.), From Hellenism to Islam. Cultural and linguistic change in the Roman Near East, pp. 303–323. https://www.emmaus-nicopolis.org/english