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Download Chapter 7: A Graphic Reconstruction of the Gamla Synagogue (1.0 MB)

Download Chapter 8: The Miqva’ot (513 KB)

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Description

This is second of a series of volumes publishing the results of the excavations of the late Shmarya Gutmann at Gamla. Gamla is the best preserved, and most extensively excavated Jewish site of the late Second Temple period in northern Israel. This second volume describes the stratigraphy and architecture of the various quarters, the building techniques and decoration, as well as the synagogue and the miqva’ot. The finds are published in later volumes.

EISBN

9789654065825

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority

City

Jerusalem

Keywords

Second Temple period, miqveh, ancient synagogue, Hasmonean

Disciplines

Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Life Sciences | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Gamla II: The Architecture The Shmarya Gutmann Excavations, 1976–1989

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