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The oldest original synagogue building in the Diaspora: the Delos synagogue reconsidered
Hesperia, Fall, 2004 by Monika Trumper
(170.) For the column drum bearing ID 2328, see n. 122, above; its dimensions (H. 0.865 m, lower/upper Diam. 0.21/0.18 m) correspond quite well with those of column-drum supports for circular tables, but it lacks the usual profiles at top and bottom; perhaps its presumably late date is responsible for the rudimentary form (see Delos XVIII, pp. 48-53). Nonfluted archaic columns without base and capital that served as bases for statues display either two holes for the tenons protruding from the feet of bronze statues, or large, deep cuttings for marble statues (Kissas 2000, pp. 231-235). Neither Schmidt (1995) nor Jordan-Ruwe (1995) discusses small column bases. For the base with ID 2329, see n. 123, above.
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For bases for statuettes found in situ in Delian niches, see Kreeb 1988, pp. 43-46, 196-197, no. 21 (H. 0.25, L. 0.30, W. ca. 0.18 m); 1988, pp. 250-251, no. 36 (H. 0.065, L. 0.27, W. 0.26 m); also Kreeb 1984, pp. 328-329, figs. 12, 13.
For "autels brule-parfumes" that might have functioned as bases for votives, see, e.g., Delos XVIII, p. 383, n. 13, and p. 384, no. A 1366, which is a rectangular base of white marble measuring 0.12 m high and 0.07-0.09 m wide, with profiles at bottom and top and a cutting in the top surface.
(171.) ID 2330, 2331, 2332 (the fourth, ID 2333, may also have functioned similarly); see n. 122, above. Also for ID 2331 and 2332, see Deonna 1934, p. 425, no. 167, p. 447, no. 183, fig. 52; Delos XVIII, p. 388, no. A 3049, p. 389, no. A 3050. ID 2330 is described as the same type in Bruneau 1970, p. 484, but is indeed larger (H. 0.25 m vs. 0.17-0.18 m). Deonna cites an uninscribed, very large example that was found in GD 80 but is nowhere else mentioned (Deonna 1934, p. 424, no. 166, figs. 31, 32; Delos XVIII, p. 388). According to Deonna, all examples show eastern, specifically Syro-Phoenician, influence. Remarkably, Deonna is never cited with regard to the function of these objects. Levine (2000, p. 101) describes ID 2330-2332 incorrectly as "column bases," and "votive/votive offering" does not appear in his extensive subject index (pp. 715-748).
(172.) For sacrifices in synagogues see in detail Runesson 2001a, pp. 426-454, 473-474; see also Binder 1999, pp. 226, 235, 337-338.
(173.) Bruneau 1982, pp. 467-485; see above, n. 123.
(174.) This applies to the bases with ID 2329, 2330, and the two Samaritan stelai already mentioned (nn. 122 and 123, above); the column drum with ID 2328 was worked all around. For the altars or incense burners with ID 2331, 2332, and 2333, such information concerning the lateral and back faces is missing in all publications.
(175.) See Bruneau 1982 (pp. 486-487, n. 50, fig. 8) and Moretti 1996 (pp. 621, 631, fig. 3) for the stele of the gymnasiarch Pausanias, which is located in exedra E2 of the Palestre du lac (GD 67). This stele definitely has a tenon in its bottom surface and is well worked on both lateral faces; therefore it was certainly intended to be set up on a base. Moreover, it is placed asymmetrically between two niches of a series of at least ten niches that were distributed symmetrically within one large room, E2-E5. This large room was subdivided subsequently and the stele in question was obviously placed in correspondence with one of the secondary partition walls. The idea of a secondary integration of this stele is supported by Charneux and Treheux (1997, pp. 171-172, n. 105), but they provide no new observations concerning its character and placement.
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