Abstract
In 1980–1, excavations were carried out in the ancient synagogue and surrounding village at Nabratein in Galilee in Israel, under the direction of E.M. Meyers, C.L. Meyers and J.F. Strange. Among the special finds published from the excavations is a black ceramic bowl that bears an incised depiction of the Torah Shrine. Whereas the excavators have dated the bowl to the Byzantine period, an examination of published parallels indicates that it should instead be assigned to the eighth to ninth centuries A.D. The bowl from Nabratein thus provides archaeological evidence for the continued existence of a Jewish community in the centuries following the Muslim conquest1.
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