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Object Alone
Ancient Synagogue in Aegina
Object Detail

Building Date
4th century CE

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

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

Photographer
Photograph Date
1995

Remarks

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