{"id":6817,"date":"2022-03-13T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T13:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/?page_id=6817"},"modified":"2022-03-13T17:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T13:26:24","slug":"sixth-century-amphorae-with-representations-of-menorah-from-phanagoria","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/?page_id=6817&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"SIXTH CENTURY AMPHORAE WITH REPRESENTATIONS OF MENORAH FROM PHANAGORIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Larisa A. Golofast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>E-mail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:larisa_golofast@mail.ru?subject=\u041f\u0438\u0441\u044c\u043c\u043e%20\u0441\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e%20\u043d\u0430%20\u0441\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0435%20&amp;quot;\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f%20\u0430\u0440\u0445\u0435\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u044f&amp;quot;\" target=\"_blank\">larisa_golofast@mail.ru<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Phanagoria, early Byzantine period, amphorae, menorah, Jewish community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During excavations in 2019 in Phanagoria at the Lower City site, two amphorae with red paint <em>dipinto <\/em>representing a seven-lamp menorah were found in a fire layer dating from around the middle of the 6th century. Representations of seven-armed candelabrum on amphorae and generally on containers were a sign that they contained a kosher food, i.e. suitable for consumption according to Halakha \u2013 a corpus of laws guiding activities of a Jew. Thus, the published amphorae attest to the presence of a Jewish community in the city in the early Byzantine period and fill a chronological gap in a short list of archaeological and written evidence about the Jewish community of Phanagoria, moreover, the fact that the vessels were found at a fairly close distance from each other in a narrowly dated gated complex may indicate the presence of a Jewish quarter there. The finds are of particular importance due to the fact that the number of amphorae and other vessels with <em>dipinti <\/em>representing a menorah known to date is rather insignificant. Their findings are known only from excavations in several centres of the Northern Pontic and Palestine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOI: <\/strong>10.31857\/S086960630015242-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larisa A. Golofast Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia E-mail:\u00a0larisa_golofast@mail.ru Keywords: Phanagoria, early Byzantine period, amphorae, menorah, Jewish community. During excavations in 2019 in Phanagoria at the Lower City site, two amphorae with red paint dipinto representing a seven-lamp menorah were found in a fire layer dating from around the middle of the 6th century. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6646,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6817","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6818,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6817\/revisions\/6818"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}