Synagogue in the Agora of Athens

The Synagogue in the Agora of Athens is an ancient former Jewish synagogue, that was located in the Ancient Agora of Athens, in modern-day Greece.

During an excavation in the summer of 1977, a piece of Pentelic marble apparently once part of a curvilinear frieze over a doorway or niche was discovered a few meters from the northeast corner of the Metroon.^[1] The marble fragment is incised with the images of a seven-branched Menorah and a Lulav, or palm branch.^[2] The synagogue is thought to date from the period between 267 and 396 CE.^[1]

The apostle Paul is said in the Book of Acts to have visited a synagogue in Athens.^[3] The identity of that synagogue cannot be firmly established.^[4]

1. ^ ^{a b} Urman, Dan; McCracken Flesher, Paul Virgil (1998). Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis and Archaeological Discovery. BRILL. pp. 125ff.
2. ^ Hachlili, Rachel (1998). Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology in the Diaspora. BRILL. p. 323.
3. ^ Acts 17:17
4. ^ Bruce, Frederick Fyvie (1988). The Book of the Acts. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 329.

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