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The Museum and its grounds display a fine collection
of objects from the Jewish settlements on the Heights
in the Talmudic period (4th -7th centuries C.E.).
These include architectural elements from synagogues
(the Temple menorah, a shofar, a mezuzah, and the
four species of plant for Succot carved on them
in relief) and many
Hebrew and Aramaic tombstone inscriptions (e.g.
those of Rabbi Abun, Shimon Bar-Abun, and Abba Ravi).
Other synagogue inscriptions commemorate important
donors or other community notables, such as Abun
Bar-Yose, Uzi, Yehuda, Hanna and Yose Bar-Halfu.
The outstanding inscription is on an ornamented
lintel from the village of Dvora, which reads (in
Hebrew): "This is the House of Study [bet midrash]
of Rabbi Eliezer HaQappar".
The Museum has a 1:50 scale model of Qazrin's ancient
synagogue surrounded by finds from the dig at the
site - a coin hoard, mosaic tesserae, pottery, and
roof tiles.
Four Golan synagogues have been excavated by Dr.
Zvi Uri Maoz, who wrote his doctoral thesis on the
Golan in the Talmudic period. In all, his ground
surveys have turned up twenty-seven Jewish settlements
of the period. Prof. Dan Urman, one of the first
researchers to make the Golan Heights his special
topic, has also published many articles on the subject.
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