News and analysis of a marble fragment with jewish symbols from Mérida

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8657_59_5

Keywords:

Late Antique Emerita Augusta, menorah, shofar, lulav, Jewish community

Abstract

This article makes known the existence of a new material evidence from the Jewish community of Merida during the Late Antiquity. The singularity of the menorah, accompanied by a shofar and a lulav and located in the middle of a marble fragment, not only endorses its genuine character, but also, in combination with other verifiable arguments, allows us to speculate on a plausible chronology of the piece (late fourth or fifth century c.e.). Starting from some of the intrinsic features presented by the decorative motifs, it is also possible to support the hypothesis that the preserved fragment was part of an unfortunately lost funerary inscription.

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Author Biography

Raúl González Salinero, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Madrid)

Training and Professional Experience:

Graduate in History, specialist in Ancient History from the University of Salamanca in 1993. Ph. D. in Ancient History (University of Salamanca) in 1997. He has been designated scientific consultant for Documentation and History of the Jews in the Roman and Visigothic Spain by the Sephardic Museum of Toledo. Since 2003 to 2017 he has been General Secretary of Interdisciplinary Association of Roman Studies (Madrid). Since January 2009 he has been designated collaborator of the Chronique Hispanique of the Revue des Études Anciennes (Bordeaux).

Research Experience:

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Spanish Academy of History and Archaeology in Rome (1999). Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Institute of Philology (Spanish High Council for Scientific Research) in Madrid (2000-2002). Visiting Scholar in the University of Cambridge with the support of a British Academy fellowship (2002). Post-Doctoral Researcher I3P at the Spanish High Council for Scientific Research (2003-2006). Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Spanish Academy of History and Archaeology in Rome (2007). Post-Doctoral Researcher in the University of Alcalá (2008). Post-Doctoral Researcher “Ramón y Cajal” in UNED (2008-2013). Visiting Scholar in the University of Cambridge (June 2009 and October-December 2018). Visiting Scholar in the University of Parma (September 2009). Visiting Scholar in the University of Sorbonne Paris-IV (May 2010). Visiting Scholar in the University of Bari Aldo Moro (September 2010).

Author of seven scientific books and monographies, around 50 research articles in Spanish and International Journals, 30 papers presented at national and international congresses and Editor of 15 scientific books.

Selected contributions in the last 5 years include (Maximum 5 references):

  • “The Legal Eradication of the Jewish Literary Legacy in Visigothic Spain”, in J. Tolan, N. de Lange, L. Foschia, and C. Nemo-Pekelman (eds.), Jews in Early Christian Law. Byzantium and the Latin West, 6th-11th Centuries, Brepols, Turnhout, 2014, pp. 195-209.
  • “Preaching and Jews in Late Antique and Visigothic Iberia”, in J. Adams, and J. Hanska (eds.), The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching, Routledge, New York/London, 2015, pp. 23-58.
  • “Tensioni tra ebrei e cristiani nella Hispania tardoromana”, in L. Montecchio (ed.), Tensioni sociali nella Tarda Antichità nelle province occidentali dell’Impero romano, Graphe.it Edizioni, Roma, 2015, pp. 19-33.
  • “La sinagoga degradada: actitudes y medidas contra una institución ajena a la autoridad de la Iglesia”, in J. Fernández Ubiña, A. J. Quiroga Puertas, and Ubric Rabaneda (eds.), La Iglesia como sistema de dominación en la Antigüedad tardía, Universidad de Granada, Granada, 2015, pp. 293-309.
  • “A Broken Coexistence: Anti-Jewish Polemics and Religious Clashes in Late Roman Hispania”, in P. Lanfranchi and J. Verheyden (eds.), Jews and Christians in Antiquity, Peeters, Leiden/Paris/Bristol, 2018, pp. 267-280.

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Published

2020-03-20

How to Cite

González Salinero, R. (2020). News and analysis of a marble fragment with jewish symbols from Mérida. Conimbriga, 59, 133-158. https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8657_59_5

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Vol. 59 (2020): Conímbriga v. 59

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