So, clearly all of those aren't martyrs. What are they? We have pagan catacombs, Jewish catacombs, and Christian catacombs. But one of the things we do see in the middle of the third century is ...

Apparently, they too were engaged in an active social life. JEWISH CATACOMBS IN ROME One of our best sources of information about the Jewish community at Rome comes from their burial places.

Jewish catacombs; sundry Roman-era inscriptions, and a synagogue at Ostia Antica. The “structural and formal characteristics” of the room found at Ostia, with a pool deep enough for a person ...

Cupid appears on Jewish sarcophagi in Rome, on paintings in Jewish catacombs in Rome and, most significantly, above the door of the synagogue at Capernaum in Israel — six of them over the main ...

"At this point Rome has an exceptional archaeological heritage of Jewish history. "There is not only the Arch of Titus, there are the catacombs, there is the synagogue of Ostia and now also the ...

The site, also the location of ancient Jewish catacombs and now a city park, will be home to a museum first proposed in 2005 but held up repeatedly by financial and bureaucratic problems.

Probably there are a number of lost catacombs, too." The oldest tunnels date back to the first century. "The Jewish community in Rome built them as cemeteries. Christian catacombs came a century ...