Mysterious Jewish Building in Roman Turkey

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Recent excavations in Limyra, Turkey, have uncovered a mysterious building near the city’s east gate. Although the structure has been only partially excavated, Jewish iconography and architectural features have already surfaced. Could it be a synagogue?

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Endnotes

From 1984–2001, the excavations were continued as an Austrian project by the Institute for Classical Archaeology of the University of Vienna, and in 2002—when the project was taken over by T. Marksteiner—it moved to the Austrian Archaeological Institute (OeAI).

Rachel Hachlili, Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology in the Diaspora (Leiden: Brill, 1998), p. 77.