Shaalvim

Other Name: Shaalavim, Shaalabim

Religion: Samaritan

Archaeological Evidences:

Period: Late Roman and/or Byzantine

Excavation: Excavated

Excavators: Eliezer Sukenik (1949)

Main Finds: Samaritan. Partially excavated. Mosaic with inscriptions.

Inscriptions: Samaritan (Magen 2010: 164-165, CIIP IV/1: 180-181) , Greek (Tod 1949, CIIP IV/1: 179-180)

Mosaics: yes

Site Condition: Unknown. Mosaics on display at the Good Samaritan Museum

Geographic Details

Geographical Region: Judea

ברקת 414, נוף איילון, ישראל

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Selected Bibliography:

Selected Bibliography

Price, J. J. and Misgav, H. "Selebi (Selbit, mod. Sha῾albim)" in Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. ed. W. Ameling et. al., IV/Part 1: Iudaea / Idumaea, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2018: 179-181.
Reich, R. "The Plan Of The Samaritan Synagogue At Sha'alvim" Israel Exploration Journal 44, 1994: 228-233.
Tod, M.N. "On The Greek Inscription In The Samaritan Synagogue At Salbit" in Louis M. Rabinowitz Fund Bulletin. II, 1949: 28-27.
Reich, R. "The plan of the Samaritan synagogue at Sha'alvim" Israel Exploration Journal 44, 1994: 228-233.
Sukenik, E.L. "The Samaritan Synagogue at Salbit" Louis M. Rabinowitz Fund Bulletin I, 1949: 25-30.

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 22 June 2025, https://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/synagogues/shaalvim/

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