Luigi Maria Caliò, Prof. classical Archaeology.
The drilling place was in modern times, in addition to a square near a square, and today, in addition to a well-known square for the mosaic, he was not examined in modern times.
“We thought we found some warehouses or fluvial port,” he said. Instead of archaeologists – budding – last summer can be the oldest example of an ancient example of the ancient Roman world of a Jewish ritual bath. They have reached history until the fourth or fifth century.
“Such an antique mikava has never found” outside Israel “, so there is a very topical finding,” said Riccardo di Segni, Rome's chief Rabbi. Added that the discovery contributed to further lighting the rich history of the Jews In ancient Rome and Ostia.
The Jews first came to Rome in the second century BC and a half-hour train ride in the city and the environment, including OSTI.
Rome and Ostia have been a point with the remains of the Jewish Heritage to date: a Menorah in Bas-relief the archu of the first century title; Jewish catacombsA synagogue in open Sundry Roman-period books and Ostia Antica.
The “structural and official features of the room found in Ostia are reminiscent of a Jewish ritual bath with a pool of a man, Ostia Antica, said it is an archeological place today. The site also was an oil lamp with a menorah figure, saying that the identity of archaeologists under the pool is approved by the identity of archaeologists.
The find was made from the first draft campaign for decades of direct implementation under the auspices of the Ostia Antica archaeologists. Mikwa said the “big and rich domest” or inside the house, probably two or more stories high. It also had a kitchen, toilet, toilet and two stoves, which opened into other rooms, as well as parts of a portico.
Domus was left until the sixth century and then left. Professor Caliò was full of “terrible material”, including fragments of panels with Fresco paintings, where the rooms and archaeologists attempted to be rebuilded.
We found the mik wow, we hope that we will have a synagogue, but I still do not know, “he said.
“There is still a lot to dig” Mr. D'Alessio told reporters. The excavations will restart in June.
The Jewish presence in Ostia has long been documented. In 2009, in the Southeast of Ostia Antica, the electric pipeline was taken, the workers came together The first century post to enter the existence of the Jews there. Italy is believed to be the oldest writing on the Jews, Marina Lo Blundo, said that Ostia Antica is an archaeologist.
In 1961, one of the oldest known synagogues in the Roman world was discovered during the construction of the highway of the new Fiumicino airport. In the middle of the fourth century, the dates of the synagogue probably were destroyed in the earthquake in 443 and said the sixth, L. Michael White, Director of Ostia Synagogue.
“From the second century, we have a fair proof to have a Jewish community in Ostia in Ostia,” he said. “The building has become a synagogue for a while in the late fourth century,” he added using another synagogue in OSTI. “It was a Jewish community that was not hidden,” he said.
The synagogue is relatively far from the modern daytime entry to Ostia Antica, which is a little hike to see some modern works of art made for the site in the last two decades. Dozens of artists took part in the Synagogue art project in 2002.
“This is a magical place,” said art president Adabiara Zevi in the Memoria Association Biennial Art Project. He said he hoped to include the mikar in future projects.
However, everyone does not accept new findings as a further proof of the Jewish existence.
Based on the website on the site, the professor said that he would be “a little careful” to call a new Jewish ritual bath until there is more evidence.
In the synagogue, the previous archaeologists were determined by Mikwa and “in the final stage, he found a room for the ritual ablution, but not a mikvah,” he said. There are also pools in bath complexes, including all kinds of pools in the world of Roman world, and there are even Christian vaptrists.
Rabbi di Segni said that new findings will raise the questions of new findings in the presentation.
Scientists tend to be critical. “I am confident that we can wait for the argument between archeologists starting tomorrow.”