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Jewish ritual bath discovered near Rome is the 'oldest discovery of its kind in the world'
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Ancient mikveh dating back to Roman times discovered in Ostia Antica, Italy
Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the ...
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Jewish ritual bath discovered near Rome is the 'oldest discovery of its kind in the world'
along with an oil lamp decorated with a menorah dated to the fifth to sixth centuries. In the summer of 2024, archaeologists excavating in the heart of the ancient city found a narrow, rectangular ...
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Roman-era Jewish bath in Italy may be oldest outside of Israel, points to vibrant Diaspora
Newly excavated site in Ostia Antica, dating as early as the 3rd century CE, offers fresh insight and new enigmas about the ...
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Archaeologists Unearth 1,600-Year-Old Jewish Ritual Bath—the Oldest Ever Found in Europe
Located in Ostia Antica, the mikvah dates to the late fourth or early fifth century C.E. Researchers say it's the earliest ...
Jewish Journal19d
Table for Five: Tetzaveh
And you shall command the children of Israel, and they shall take to you pure olive oil, crushed for lighting, to kindle the lamps continually. I currently have boxes full of menorahs in my living ...
The Times of Israel18d
Parashat Tetzaveh: Light Reflections
The menorah is shaped a lot like certain types ... Israel is the olive tree and God is the lamp. When oil from the olive tree is put into the lamp “then the two together give light as though ...
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Archaeologists Unearth 1,600-Year-Old Jewish Ritual Bath—the Oldest Ever Found in Europe
Oil lamp decorated with a menorah and a palm frond known as a lulav Ostia Antica Archaeological Park Caliò’s team found the roughly 1,600-year-old mikvah in a “large and rich domus”—a ...