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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.
According to the Rome Museum, construction of the catacombs began in the 2nd century and lasted for roughly 300 years. During this time, pagan, Jewish and Christian citizens of Rome were buried ...
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 ...
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 ...