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Obj. ID: 20786
Ancient Jewish Art
  Ancient Synagogue in Delos, Greece

© Sergey Kravtsov, Photographer: Kravtsov, Sergey, 2016

The building was discovered in 1912-13, excavated again in 1965 and a new survey was conducted in 2000-2003.

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Name/Title
Ancient Synagogue in Delos | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
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Date
between 150 and 128 BCE
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction dates
Artist/ Maker
Unknown
Origin
Historical Origin
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Community type
Congregation
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School/Style
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Period
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Period Detail
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Languages of inscription
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Shape / Form
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Material / Technique
Material Stucture
Material Decoration
Material Bonding
Material Inscription
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Material Cloth
Material Lining
Tesserae Arrangement
Density
Colors
Construction material
Stone
Measurements
Height
Length
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Circumference
Thickness
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Weight
Axis
Panel Measurements
Condition
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
Present Usage
Museum
Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
One of the oldest synagogues in the world, built during the Second Temple period. Erected by a remote Jewish community.
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Marble "chair of Moses"

Urban significance
Significance Rating
4 (International)
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Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
Scribes
Script
Number of Lines
Ruling
Pricking
Quires
Catchwords
Hebrew Numeration
Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Coin
Coin Series
Coin Ruler
Coin Year
Denomination
Signature
Colophon
Scribal Notes
Watermark
Hallmark
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Trade Mark
Binding
Decoration Program
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance

"The existence of a Jewish community in Delos was mentioned in the Bible (New Testament) and was confirmed by five inscriptions from the late 2nd or early 1st century B.C.E. The ruins of the synagogue reveal that it consisted of two rooms with benches set along the western wall of the northernmost room. A marble throne and footstool still, referred to as the “Throne of Moses” still exists. An arched opening rises above a cistern which may have been a Mikve (ritual bath)." [Synagogues360]

Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources

"Delos Synagogue,"
Synagogues360, https://synagogues-360.anumuseum.org.il/gallery/delos-synagogue/., https://synagogues-360.anumuseum.org.il/ (accessed April 7, 2024)

Messinas, Elias. The Synagogues of Greece: A Study of Synagogues in Macedonia and Thrace (Jacksonville: Bloch Publishing Company in association with Bowman & Cody Academic Publishing, 2012)., https://issuu.com/eliasblue/docs/messinas_synagogues_of_greece_do_no (accessed December 1, 2021)

Stavroulakis , Nicholas P. and Timothy J. DeVinney. Jewish Sites and Synagogues of Greece (Athens, 1992)

Zanet Battinou, Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum Graeciae: Corpus of Jewish and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mainland and Island Greece (Late 4th c. B.C.E. - 15th Century) (Athens: The Jewish Museum of Greece, 2018), 138-151;

Alexeaner Panayotov, “Jews and Jewish Communities in the Balkans and the Aegean until the Twelfth Century,” in The Jewish–Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire, ed. James K. Aitken and Carleton Paget (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 54–76.

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