{"id":6579,"date":"2026-01-12T16:19:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-central-area-and-the-official-complexes\/mensola-della-sinagoga\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:06:48","slug":"mensola-della-sinagoga","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-central-area-and-the-official-complexes\/mensola-della-sinagoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Mensola della Sinagoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

This marble corbel is one of two that originally decorated the shrine in Ostia\u2019s Synagogue holding the ark in which the scrolls of the Law (Torah<\/em>) were kept; the construction of this shrine is mentioned by a Greek inscription commemorating an individual who paid for a container to hold the sacred scrolls.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tView of the corbels during excavation\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tDetail of the decoration of one of the corbels\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

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The corbel presents a relief image of the seven-armed candelabrum (menorah<\/em>), accompanied by a ram\u2019s horn (shofar<\/em>), a bundle of three species of plant (palm, myrtle and willow) and a citron fruit, important symbols of the Jewish faith that allude to worship at the Temple in Jerusalem and express the hope that it will be rebuilt.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tReconstruction of the shrine in the Synagogue (corbels shown in light blue)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tLamps depicting the menorah found in the Synagogue\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This marble corbel is one of two that originally decorated the shrine in Ostia\u2019s Synagogue holding the ark in which the scrolls of the Law (Torah) were kept; the construction of this shrine is mentioned by a Greek inscription commemorating an individual who paid for a container to hold the sacred scrolls.     The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6512,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6579","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6579\/revisions\/6580"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}