Artistic Influences in Synagogue Mosaics: Putting the Huqoq Synagogue in Context
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Footnotes
1. The discoveries at Huqoq have regularly been reported in BAR since the launch of the project in 2011. See Jodi Magness, “Samson in the Synagogue,” BAR, 39:01; Jodi Magness, “Scholar’s Update: New Mosaics from the Huqoq Synagogue,” BAR, 39:05; Jodi Magness, “Archaeological Views: A Lucky Discovery Complicates Life,” BAR, 41:02; “Strata: More Mosaics at Huqoq,” BAR, 43:01; “Strata: New Huqoq Mosaics,” BAR, 43:06; “Strata: Israelite Spies in Huqoq Mosaic,” BAR, 44:06.
Endnotes
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Our work on the Huqoq mosaics is indebted to the authoritative study of mosaics in the region by Rina Talgam, Mosaics of Faith: Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press and the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute, 2014).
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See Uzi Leibner and Shulamit Miller, “Appendix: A Figural Mosaic in the Synagogue at Khirbet Wadi Hamam,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 23 (2010), pp. 238–264; Shulamit Miller and Uzi Leibner, “The Synagogue Mosaics,” in Uzi Leibner, ed., Khirbet Wadi Hamam: A Roman-Period Village and Synagogue in the Lower Galilee, Qedem Reports 13 (Jerusalem: The Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with the Israel Exploration Society, 2018), pp. 144–186.
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Na‘aran, Beth Alpha, Huseifa, Hammath Tiberias, Susiya, Sepphoris, Yaphi‘a, and Wadi Hamam. In addition, the ‘Ein Gedi synagogue inscription (in the narthex) contains a list of the signs of the zodiac and the seasons.