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Atiqot 115 (2024)
ISBN 2948-040X
A Decorated Basalt Door from Naṣr ed-Din (Bet Ma‘on), near Tiberias
(Pp. 357–360)
Yosef Stepansky
Keywords: Roman period, burial, stone door, mausoleum, Tiberias, Talmud
Three fragments of a basalt door were retrieved from the excavation at Naṣr ed-Din, which belong to a large group of about 25 stone doors discovered in the city of Tiberias. Such doors are known to have originated in burial contexts, their facades usually adorned in a manner that resembled wooden doors of residences. The door from Bet Ma‘on is the first to be found outside Tiberias, and it probably belonged to a contemporary mausoleum mentioned in the Talmud.