Ancient Synagogue in Aegina
Object Detail
Building Date
4th century CE
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Style
Unknown|
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Stone
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Excavated in 1928.
Condition
Present Usage
Museum
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
2 (Regional)
Condition of Building Fabric
E (No return)
Bibliography
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), 132-137.
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.
https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2019/08/13/greece-campaign-underway/
Dorfman, Rivka and Ben-Zion. Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that Built and Used Them (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 2000)
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 November 30, 2021)
Stavroulakis , Nicholas P. and Timothy J. DeVinney. Jewish Sites and Synagogues of Greece (Athens, 1992)
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Elias Messinas
Photographer
Photograph Date
1995
Remarks
1 Coordinates: 37.749756, 23.424664