A Building with Jewish Elements in Limyra/Turkey - A Synagogue?

Seyer, Martin; Lotz, Helmut

doi:10.13109/jaju.2014.5.2.142

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“…In the late 5th/early 6th century AD, the city was divided into two parts by means of two separate wall circuits. Amongst the monuments of that time, the three church buildings are noteworthy (Jacobek, 1993 ; Peschlow, 1984 ; Pülz, 1996 ), as well as a building discovered in 2012 that might have been the synagogue of the city (Seyer, 2014 ; Seyer & Lotz, 2014 ).…”

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On the geoarchaeology of Limyra (SW Anatolia)—new insights into the famous Lycian city and its environs

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Geoarchives in ancient settlement sites and their environs bear valuable information about Holocene landscape evolution and human–environment interactions. During the last six millennia, sea‐level and coastline changes have had a significant impact on coastal settlements, some of which even had to be relocated. This paper reveals new insights into the spatio‐temporal development of the Lycian city of Limyra. Selected sediment cores were analyzed using a multiproxy approach, combining sedimentology, geochemistry, micropaleontology, and 14C dating. When the postglacial sea‐level rise decelerated, a coastal barrier and a deep lake, presumably a lagoon, evolved after the mid‐Holocene. The siltation history of the lake is complex: three coastal peat layers (mid‐4th millennium BC, end of 3rd/beginning of 2nd millennium BC, beginning of 1st millennium BC), indicate periods of semiterrestrial conditions. That they are sandwiched by lake sediments is consistent with new expansion phases of the lake, most likely triggered by coseismic subsidence. There is evidence of a former lakeshore, dated to between 1400 and 1100 BC, with an intentionally deposited layer of anthropogenic remains, now at 5.5 m below the surface. In the mid‐1st millennium BC, the lake silted up, river channels evolved, and people started to settle the area of the later city of Limyra.

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On the geoarchaeology of Limyra (SW Anatolia)—new insights into the famous Lycian city and its environs

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“…Excavations in the region of the Byzantine eastern city wall in 2012 discovered a building remarkable in many respects. According to various features, it certainly was a public building for Limyra's Jewish community, and it is probable that it was even the city's synagogue (Seyer and Lotz, 2014).…”

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The drowning of ancient Limyra (southwestern Turkey) by rising groundwater during Late Antiquity to Byzantine times

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From the 6 th century BC to Byzantine times, the ancient city of Limyra was an important urban center of the Lycian territory at the southwestern coastal region of Asia Minor. Archaeological, geological, hydrochemical and surface elevation data, as well as 14 C age dating constrain a paleo-hydrogeological model, explaining the submergence of the city foundation walls below the groundwater table. In this model, tectonically induced subsidence of the acropolis (Toçak Dağı) initiated a debris flow into the area of the lower city. Both, natural and anthropogenic gravel accumulation resulted in the formation of a new aquifer pathway redirecting formerly bypassing karst water into the city center. Consequently, the inhabitants of Limyra had to fight against the rising ground water

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