Meroth

Other Name: Marus
Religion: Jewish

Archaeological Evidences:

Period: Late Roman and/or Byzantine
Excavation: Excavated
Excavators: Zvi Ilan and Emanuel Damati (1983-1989)
Main Finds: Benches and columns, amulet, coin hoard, mosaic fragments with figurative designs.
Inscriptions: Hebrew and Aramaic (Ilan 1995: 264, 270-272, 278-280, CIIP V/1: 184-193).
Mosaics: Yes
Site Condition: Military zone.
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Geographic Details

Geographical Region: Upper Galilee
Unnamed Road, ישראל

Selected Bibliography:

Selected Bibliography
  1. Price, J. J. and Yardeni, A. "Meroth" in Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. ed. W. Ameling et. al., V/Part 1: Galilaea and Northern Regions, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2023: 184-193.
  2. Sandhaus, D. "Selected Pottery from the Synagogue at Ḥorbat Merot" 109, Atiqot, 2022: 83-115.
  3. Bijovsky, G. "The Coins from the Synagogue at Ḥorbat Merot, Upper Galilee" 109, Atiqot, 2022: 117-155.
  4. Damati, E. "The Synagogue at Ḥorbat Merot: Its Construction Phases and a New Interpretation of the Finds" 109, Atiqot, 2022: 89-139, (Hebrew).
  5. Damati, E. "The Synagogue and Bet Midrash of Ancient Merot" in Ancient Synagogues Revealed: 1981-2022. ed. L. I. Levine, Z. Weiss, U. Leibner, Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 2023: 11-19.
  6. Ilan, Z. and Damati, I. "The Synagogue and Beth-Midrash at Ancient Meroth" Qadmoniot: A Journal for the Antiquities of Eretz-Israel and Bible Lands 20, 1987: 87-96, (Hebrew).
  7. Ilan, Z. and Damati, E. "Excavation of the Synagogue at Meroth" Qadmoniot: A Journal for the Antiquities of Eretz-Israel and Bible Lands 18, 1985: 44-50, (Hebrew).
  8. Ilan, Z. "The Synagogue and Study House at Meroth" in Ancient Synagogues-Historical Analysis and Archaeological Discovery. ed. Dan Urman and Paul V.M Flesher, 1, Leiden- New York-Koln, 1995: 256-288.
  9. Mucznik, S. and Ovadiah, A. "The Meroth Mosaic Reconsidered" in Journal of Jewish Studies. 47,2, 1996: 286-293.
  10. Damati, E. The Meroth Synagogue and its implication on the Chronology of Galilean Synagogues. MA Thesis, Jerusalem, Hebrew University, 2000, (Hebrew).
Bibliographic citation of this page
Ben David, C. Osband, M. Aviam, M. Site: ‘Synagogues.Kinneret.ac.il’, The Bornblum Eretz Israel Website for the Study of Ancient Synagogues, accessed on 19 July 2025, https://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/synagogues/meroth/

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