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Ancient Synagogue in Sardis
Object Detail

Building Date
3rd century CE

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style
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Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Museum

Present Usage Details

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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
E (No return)

Bibliography

Rachel Hachlili, Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology in the Diaspora (Leiden, 1998), pp. 58-63, 218-231, 410-412.

A. R. Seager and A. T. Kraabel, “Te Synagogue and the Jewish Community,” in Sardis from Prehistoric to Roman Times (ed. G. M. A. Hanfmann; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), 168–90.

H.Botermann, “Die Synagoge von Sardes: Eine Synagoge aus dem 4. Jahrhundert?” ZNW 81(1990): 103–21.

J. Magness, “Te Date of the Sardis Synagogue in Light of the Numismatic Evidence,” AJA 109 (2005): 443–75. 



Güleryüz , Naim A. and Izzet Keribar. The Synagogues of Thrace and Anatolia (Istanbul: Gözlem Gazetecilik Basin ve Yayin Aş, 2008)

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Photographer
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