The Menorah on the Mosaic Floor from the Late Roman/Early Byzantine Synagogue at Ḥorvat Kur
At the end of the 2013 campaign, the Kinneret Regional Project found the remains of a tesselated floor displaying geometric patterns, a mosaic and an Aramaic inscription that mentions the name of a male individual, his father and his grandfather. Preliminary stratigraphic analysis dates the mosaic t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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Israel exploration journal
Year: 2017, Volume: 67, Issue: 1, Pages: 110-126 |
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| Summary: | At the end of the 2013 campaign, the Kinneret Regional Project found the remains of a tesselated floor displaying geometric patterns, a mosaic and an Aramaic inscription that mentions the name of a male individual, his father and his grandfather. Preliminary stratigraphic analysis dates the mosaic to the second half of the fourth century CE, confirming that the early fifth-century CE Byzantine basilical broadhouse synagogue had a Late Roman predecessor. Only the upper parts of the menorah's branches are preserved. The lamps are oriented towards the central flame in a way that is also attested in the Diaspora and in Samaritan contexts, for example. |
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