At Sukkot, a time of reflection and renewal, we wanted to share with our readers this beautiful ancient image from the Jewish catacombs in Venosa, Italy — believed to date from the 6th century C.E. The picture was taken by the late Italian scholar Cesare Colafemmina in the 1970s, and first published in 1978 in Vetera Christianorum.
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(The photo from Venosa was used to illustrate the cover of a catalogue from an exhibition on Jewish inscriptions in Basilicata and in Puglia, mounted to honor Prof. Colafemmina, earlier this year.)
3 comments on “Sukkot!”
you asked spread the word,however I experienced to spread the magnificent photographs reshape perceptions in a very receptive way!!!
I myself appreciate highly your work and the photographs are let me say unique to spread the Light in Jewish history so dear to myself and acquaintances
bleib mir gezunt
Thank you Ben!
The image is taken from the cover of the book:
Mariapina Mascolo editor, supervision of Mauro Perani, KETAV, SEFER, MIKTAV. The Jewish culture written between Basilicata and Puglia, catalog of the exhibition (Venosa, National Archaeological Museum 20 March | 20 September 2014; Bari, Swabian Castle 19 March – 1 April 2014), CeRDEM necklace SEM 2 Editions Of Page, Bari 2014, 400 pp.
info:
http://www.cerdem.com
https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2014/03/28/major-exhibition-on-jewish-inscriptions-in-southern-italy/%E2%80%9D