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Beth Guvrin

Other Name: Beit Guvrin, Eleutheropolis
Religion: Jewish

Archaeological Evidences:

Period: Late Roman and/or Byzantine
Excavation: Unexcavated
Selected Surveyors: Survey of Western Palestine (published 1883), Eleazar Lipa Sukenik (1925)
Main Finds: Capital with menorah and stone with Aramaic inscription
Inscriptions: Aramiac (Naveh 1978: 109-111, CIIP IV/2: 894-896).
Site Condition: Nothing visible at the site from the synagogue
Aramaic inscription Ilan 1991: 261, courtesy of Almoga Ilan

Geographic Details

Geographical Region: Judea
35, Israel

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Selected Bibliography:

Selected Bibliography
  1. Price, J. J. and Yardeni, A. "Eleutheropolis (Beit Jibrin, mod. Beit Guvrin)" in Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. ed. W. Ameling et. al., IV/Part 2: Iudaea / Idumaea, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2018: 894-896.
  2. Naveh, J. On Stone and Mosaic: the Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues. Tel Aviv, Israel Exploration Society, 1978: 109-111, (Hebrew).
  3. Ilan, Z. Ancient Synagogues in Israel. Tel Aviv, 1991: 260-261, (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 24 June 2025, https://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/synagogues/beth-guvrin/

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Aramaic inscription Ilan 1991: 261, courtesy of Almoga Ilan © <i> synagogues.kinneret.ac.il </i>
Aramaic inscription Ilan 1991: 261, courtesy of Almoga Ilan

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