The Theodotos inscription is the earliest known inscription from a synagogue. It was found in December 1913 by Raymond Weill in Wadi Hilweh (known as the City of David).[1]
It is the earliest-known evidence of a synagogue building in the region of Palestine.[2]
The ten-line inscription is on an ashlar stone measuring 75 cm × 41 cm (30 in × 16 in). [1]
^ abSuzanne Richard (2003). Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader. Eisenbrauns. pp. 455–. ISBN 978-1-57506-083-5.
^Tripolitis, Antonia (2002). Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-8028-4913-7. The earliest evidence of a synagogue building in Palestine is found in the Theodotus inscription discovered in Jerusalem
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