Dr. Yuval Baruch calls the menorah-decorated capital unique evidence of Jewish settlement after Bar Kokhba revolt.

This stone capital is considered one-of-a-kind and has not been found anywhere else in the world, according to the IAA.

Artifact, made of local limestone, was discovered in a settlement dating from a time when no Jew was allowed to live in the region ...

The capital is 1,500 years old, a one-of-a-kind artefact never found before in the world, as it features an eight-branched ...

A one-of-a-kind stone capital decorated with an eight-branched lamp over 1,500 years old, will be revealed to the public for the first time at the Campus for the Archaeology of Israel in Jerusalem.

Other monastic sites have been excavated in the region, which was part of the Byzantine Empire. For Mor, who is studying for a master's degree at the Institute of Archeology in Jerusalem ...

Dr. Yuval Baruch, deputy director of archaeology at the Israel Antiquities Authority, emphasized the artifact’s significance, ...

But the abundance of coins, ornamental crucifixes and fragments of columns found from Jerusalem’s Byzantine era (A.D. 380–638) suggest that some public buildings were constructed there.

JSRS 28:117-137 (Hebrew; English summary, p. 60*). Dan Y. 1984. The City in Erez-Israel during the Late Roman and Byzantine Periods. Jerusalem. Dan Y. and Raz Z. 1970. Soil Map Units of Israel in the ...