Corinth: A Synagogue

 

Corinth Synagogue Inscription

By Mark Landon (photographed in 1993; digitized in 2021) – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123445351

This inscription from the fourth to sixth centuries C.E. confirms the terminology we are accustomed to using to refer to Jewish houses of worship.

“[syna]gogue of the Hebr[ews]”

85. Trans. S. Berrin from J.-B. Frey, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaicarum II (Rome-Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1952), no. 718.

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