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053) Mafjar, Khirbet el-/Tell el-Jurn area: Synagogue of Shahwan

[PADIS code 0019]

Arabic: كنيس شهوان

Site location: Lat. +31° 52' 39.61" N; Long. 35° 27' 1.78" E.

Site extension: 5 dunams.

State of preservation: partly preserved, partly under modern cultivations.

Disturbance: modern cultivations, modern building activities.

Occupational periods: Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic.

Plates: I, III, XLII.

 

 

Roman Period

Site typology: other.

Funerary architecture: cave.

Material culture: coins.

Bibliography: Baramki 1938, 75; Shantur 1972; Greenberg - Keinan 2009, 63-85, site n. 317.

 

Byzantine Period

Site typology: synagogue.

Public architecture: synagogue.

Bibliography: Baramki 1938; Foerster 1993; Yahya 2007, 20-21; Greenberg - Keinan 2009, 67, site n. 317.

 

Early Islamic Period

Site typology: synagogue.

Material culture: mosaics with Hebrew inscriptions, glass vessels, coins, bronze lamps.

Bibliography: Avi Yonah 1937; Baramki 1938; Augustinović 1951, 157; Foerster 1993, 695; Cirelli - Zagari 2000, 366-367; Yahya 2007, 20-21; Greenberg - Keinan 2009, 67, site n. 317.

 

Bibliography

Augustinović, A.
1951 Gerico e dintorni, Jerusalem 1951 (in particular p. 157).
Avi Yonah, M.
1937 "An Early Byzantine synagogue near Tell es-Sultan, Jericho", in Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine 6 (1937), pp. 73-77.
Baramki, D.C.
1938 "An Early Byzantine Synagogue near Tell es-Sultan, Jericho", in Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine 6 (1938), pp. 73-76.
Cirelli, E. - Zagari, F.
2000 "Gerico in epoca bizantina e islamica. Problemi e proposte di ricerca", in Archeologia Medievale 27 (2000), pp. 365-376 (in particular pp. 366-367).
Foerster, G.
1993 "The Synagogue at Tell es-Sultan", in E. Stern (ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Arhcaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, Vol. 2, Jerusalem 1993, pp. 695.
Greenberg, R. - Keinan, A.
2009 Israeli Archaeological Activity in the West Bank 1967-2007. A Sourcebook, Jerusalem 2009 (in particular p. 67, site n. 317, map 2).
Shantur, B.
1972 "Jericho", in Hadashot Arkheologiyot 43 (1972), p. 17 (Hebr.).
Yahya, A.
2007 PACE Tourguide of Jericho & Vicinity. Historical, Archaeological and Religious Sites, Ramallah 2007 (in particular pp. 20-21).