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‘Atiqot 90 (2018)
ISBN 2948-040X
A Byzantine-Period Funerary Chapel in the Newe Yam Dalet Neighborhood in Ashqelon
(pp. 147–158)
Yulia Ustinova and Gregory Seriy
Keywords: Byzantine period, Christianity, epigraphy, art, religion, cult
Excavations in Ashqelon’s Newe Yam Dalet neighborhood revealed a remarkable funerary chapel. The funerary complex comprises a courtyard, a tomb and a roofed chamber. The chamber floor was paved with mosaics, containing three Greek inscription; a fourth inscription was found on a marble slab in secondary use. The epigraphic evidence endorses the
interpretation of the site as a cultic complex, perhaps a private memorial site of an individual venerated by the community.