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The oldest original synagogue building in the Diaspora: the Delos synagogue reconsidered
Hesperia, Fall, 2004 by Monika Trumper
(9.) This short summary certainly cannot do full justice to the extensive and complex argumentation in each of these studies. Important points will be treated in detail during discussion of the respective issues.
(10.) Bruneau 1970, pp. 480-493, pls. B-H, with an excellent field plan, detailed plans, sections, and other drawings (see Fig. 2 here).
(11.) In Bruneau 1982, plans indicating the different phases are absent, as they are in the former publication; in addition, the sequence of the three phases is not clearly described in the text and can be divined only in general terms.
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(12.) White 1987. White 1990, pp. 64-67, is a summary of White 1987, but both include the same plan indicating the different walls and phases. Because the plan in White 1987 (p. 157, fig. 2) has no scale or north arrow, however, it is advisable to consult White 1990, p. 65, fig. 10.
(13.) First, the embellishment of the portico to create a "tristoa" (for discussion of this and related terms, see n. 74) suggests the existence of a simpler predecessor (a single colonnade at the west?) that is neither described in the text nor indicated on the plan. Binder (1999, p. 308, n. 160) has interpreted this situation as follows: "We should note that White believes that the porticus was a later addition, though one added before the second phase when the dividing wall was placed between Room A/B."
Second, can two completely different wall types, gneiss/granite and White's (1987, p. 148) composite "SR" (consisting of mixed gneiss and granite with some marble and spoil material), be assigned to one phase without further comment? This probably induced McLean (1996, p. 195) to suggest a merging of White's phases 2 and 3 into one, thus combining three different wall systems. The plan and the reconstruction of the history as presented by Hachlili (1998, pp. 37-38, fig. 36) are confusing and will, therefore, not be discussed in detail.
(14.) Binder 1999, p. 307, n. 155, with further references.
(15.) Those who follow White include Rutgers (1996, p. 94); McLean (1996, pp. 192-195); Richardson (1996, p. 97); Hachlili (1998, pp. 35-39); Levine (2000, pp. 100-105); and ClauBen (2002, pp. 192-194). Two exceptions are Binder (1999, pp. 297-317) and Runesson (2001a, pp. 185-189).
(16.) As the bonding and abutment of walls is not marked on White's plan (1987, p. 157, fig. 2), it suggests an extension of the first building to the west and an extension or contemporary building to the north in his second phase. Bruneau's much more detailed plan (1970, pl. B) shows no wall at the west, but one abutting and one bonding wall each to the north.
(17.) Binder 1999, pp. 297-317; I have had no access to Mazur's book (Mazur 1935), but her ideas seem to be fully and clearly summarized by Binder, who also reprints her restored plan as fig. 15. In addition, Binder reprints Bruneau's plan (1970, pl. B) but provides no plans of his own of the different phases. The "field plan" published by Foerster (1981, p. 166, no source given) might have been taken from Mazur's publication as well: it shows a platform in the middle of hall A/B that was observed and mentioned only by Mazur; see Bruneau 1970, p. 481. Mazur's plan could be based on Plassart's original plan, now lost (see above, n. 3).
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