Sepphoris
Sepphoris / Tzipori / Saffuriya
צִפּוֹרִי / صفورية | |
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Coordinates: 32°44′44″N 35°16′43″E / 32.74556°N 35.27861°E | |
Country | Israel |
District | Northern |
Council | Jezreel Valley |
Founded | 5000 BCE (First settlement) 104 BCE (Hasmonean city) 634 (Saffuriya) 1948 (depopulated) |
Sepphoris (
Since Late Antiquity, it was believed to be the birthplace of Mary, mother of Jesus, and the village where Saints Anna and Joachim are often said to have resided, where today a fifth-century basilica is excavated at the site honouring the birth of Mary.[6] Notable structures at the site include a Roman theatre, two early Christian churches, a Crusader fort partly rebuilt by Zahir al-Umar in the 18th century, and over sixty different mosaics dating from the third to the sixth century CE.[7][8]
Following the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–135, Sepphoris was one of the Galilean centers where rabbinical families from neighboring Judea relocated.[9] Remains of a synagogue dated to the first half of the fifth century were discovered on the northern side of town.[10] In the 7th century, the town was conquered by the Arab Rashidun armies during the Muslim conquest of the Levant. Successive Muslim dynasties ruled the area until the Crusades.
Until its depopulation during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War,[11][12] Saffuriya was a Palestinian Arab village. Moshav Tzippori was established adjacent to the site in 1949. It falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council, and in 2022 had a population of 1,030.
The area where the remains of the ancient city have been excavated, occupied until 1948 by the Arab village,[13] was designated an archaeological reserve named Tzipori National Park in 1992.[14]
Etymology
Zippori / Tzipori; Sepphoris
In Ancient Greek, the city was called Sepphoris[dubious ] from its Hebrew name Tzipori, understood to be a variant of the Hebrew word for bird, tzipor – perhaps, as a Talmudic gloss suggests, because it is "perched on the top of a mountain, like a bird".[15][16]
Eirenopolis and Neronias
Sepphoris issued its first coins at the time of the
Diocaesarea
Peter Schäfer (1990), also citing G. F. Hill's conclusions based on his numismatic work done a century earlier, considers that the city's name was changed to Diocaesarea in 129/30, just prior to the Bar Kokhba revolt, in Hadrian's time.[20] This gesture was done in honour of the visiting Roman emperor and his identification with Zeus Olympias, reflected in Hadrian's efforts in building temples dedicated to the supreme Olympian god.[20] Celdrán (1995) places this name change a few decades later, during the time of Emperor Antoninus Pius (r. 138–161), when the city minted coins using this name, and interprets it as proof of the city's high degree of Hellenisation.[19] Celdrán notes that the name Sepphoris was reinstated before the end of Antoninus Pius's rule.[19]
This name was not used by Jewish writers, who continued to refer to it as Zippori.[21]
History
Canaanite and Israelite Zippori in Hebrew Bible, Mishnah, Talmud
The
According to Mishna 'Arakhin 9:6, the old fortress of Zippori was encompassed by a wall during the era of Joshua.[25]
Iron Age findings
Evidence from ceramic remains indicates the site of Sepphoris was inhabited during the Iron Age, 1,000–586 BCE.[26]
Hellenistic period; Hasmoneans
Actual occupation and building work can be verified from the 4th century BCE, with the Hellenistic period.[26]
In 104 BCE, the Judean priestly dynasty of the
Herodian, later Roman, and Byzantine periods
The Roman client king, Herod the Great recaptured the city in 37 BCE after it had been garrisoned by the Parthian proxy, the Hasmonean Antigonus II Mattathias.[29]
After Herod's death in 4 BCE, a rebel named Judas, son of a local bandit, Ezekias, attacked Sepphoris, then the administrative center of the Galilee, and, sacking its treasury and weapons, armed his followers in a revolt against Herodian rule.[30][31] The Roman governor in Syria, Varus is reported by Josephus - perhaps in an exaggeration, since archaeology has failed to verify traces of the conflagration - to have burnt the city down, and sold its inhabitants into slavery.[30][31] After Herod's son, Herod Antipas was made tetrarch, or governor, he proclaimed the city's new name to be Autocratoris, and rebuilt it as the "Ornament of the Galilee" (Josephus, Ant. 18.27).[32] An ancient route linking Sepphoris to Legio, and further south to Samaria-Sebastia, is believed to have been paved by the Romans around this time.[33] The new population was loyal to Rome.
The inhabitants of Sepphoris did not join the
In the aftermath of the
The town was also the center of a Christian bishopric. Three of its early bishops are known by name: Dorotheus (mentioned in 451), Marcellinus (mentioned in 518), and Cyriacus (mentioned in 536).[48][49][50] As a diocese that is no longer residential, it is listed in the Annuario Pontificio among titular sees.[51][52]
In the centuries between the rule of Herod Antipas and the end of the
Early Muslim period
Saffuriyya
صفورية Suffurriye, Safurriya | |
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Chanton[58] |
The fourth century saw Jewish Zippori losing its centrality as the main Jewish city of the Galilee in favour of Tiberias, and its population dwindled away.
The ninth-century Islamic scholar
The Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods
At the end of the 11th century, the First Crusade invaded the region and established Crusader states, with the Kingdom of Jerusalem replacing Muslim rule over Saffuriya. During the Crusader period, Sephoris changed hands several times. The Crusaders built a fort and watchtower atop the hill overlooking the town,[64][65] and a church dedicated to Saint Anne, the mother of Mary, mother of Jesus.[66] This became one of their local bases in the kingdom, and the town was called in Old French: le Saforie or Sephoris.[65] In 1187, the field army of the Latin kingdom marched from their well-watered camp at Sephoris to be cut off and destroyed at the Battle of Hattin by the Ayyubid sultan, Saladin.
In 1255, the village and its fortifications were back in Crusader hands, as a document from that year shows it belonged to the archbishop of Nazareth,[67] but by 1259, the bishop experienced unrest among the local Muslim farmers.[68] Saffuriyyah was captured between 1263 and 1266 by the
Ottoman period
Saffuriya (Arabic: صفورية, also
It is reported that in 1745 Zahir al-Umar, who grew up in the town,[73] built a fort on the hill overlooking Saffuriya.[60] A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as Safoureh.[74]
In the early 19th century, the British traveller J. Buckingham noted that all the inhabitants of Saffuriya were Muslim, and that the house of St. Anna had been completely demolished.[60][75]
In the late 19th century, Saffuriyya was described as village built of stone and mud, situated along the slope of a hill. The village contained the remains of the Church of St. Anna and a square tower, said to have been built in the mid-18th century. The village had an estimated 2,500 residents, who cultivated 150
A population list from about 1887 showed that Sepphoris had about 2,940 inhabitants; all Muslims.[77]
In 1900, an elementary school for boys was founded, and later, a school for girls.[60]
Though it lost its centrality and importance as a cultural center under the Ottomans (1517–1918) and the British Mandate (1918–1948), the village thrived agriculturally. Saffuriyya's pomegranates, olives and wheat were famous throughout the Galilee.[78]
British Mandate period
According to the British Mandate's 1922 census of Palestine, Saffuriyeh had 2,582 inhabitants; 2,574 Muslims and 8 Christians,[79] where the Christians were all Roman Catholics.[80]
By the 1931 census the population had increased to 3,147; 3,136 Muslims and 11 Christians, in a total of 747 houses.[81] In summer of 1931, archaeologist Leroy Waterman began the first excavations at Saffuriya, digging up part of the school playground, formerly the site of the Crusader fort.[5]
A local council was established in 1923. The expenditure of the council grew from 74 Palestine pound in 1929 to 1,217 in 1944.[60]
In the 1945 statistics, the population was 4,330; 4,320 Muslims and 10 Christians,[56] and the total land area was 55,378 dunams.[55] In 1944/45 a total of 21,841 dunams of village land was used for cereals, 5,310 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards, mostly olive trees,[60][82] while 102 dunams were classified as built-up land.[83] By 1948, Saffuriya was the largest village in the Galilee both by land size and population.[84]
State of Israel
The Arab village had a history of anti-
On 20 February 1949, the Israeli moshav of Tzippori was founded southeast of the older village.[84] The pomegranate and olive trees were replaced with crops for cattle fodder.[90]
Saffuriya is among the Palestinian villages for which commemorative Marches of Return have taken place, typically as part of Nakba Day, such as the demonstrations organized by the Association for the Defence of the Rights of the Internally Displaced.[91]
Archaeological park
Roman and Byzantine city
Much of the town has been excavated, revealing Jewish homes along a main cobblestone street. Several images have been found carved into the stones of the street, including that of a
Roman theatre
The Roman theatre sits on the northern slope of the hill, and is about 45 m in diameter, seating 4500. Most of it is carved into the hillside, but some parts are supported by separate stone pillars. The theatre shows evidence of ancient damage, possibly from the earthquake in 363.
Nile mosaic villa
A modern structure stands to one side of the excavations, overlooking the remains of a 5th-century public building with a large and intricate mosaic floor. Some believe the room was used for festival rituals involving a celebration of water, and possibly covering the floor in water. Drainage channels have been found in the floor, and the majority of the mosaic seems devoted to measuring the floods of the Nile, and celebrations of those floods.[94]
Dionysus mosaic villa
A Roman villa, built around the year 200, contains an elaborate mosaic floor in what is believed to have been a
The most famous image is that of a young woman, possibly representing
Byzantine-period synagogue
The remains of a
The mosaic shows the "
An Aramaic inscription reads "May he be remembered for good Yudan son of Isaac the Priest and Paragri his daughter Amen Amen"[97]
Crusader tower
The Crusader fortress on the hill overlooking the Roman theater was built in the 12th century on the foundation of an earlier Byzantine structure. The fortress is a large square structure, 15m x15m, and approximately 10 m. high. The lower portion of the building consists of reused antique
Excavation history
Since 1990 large areas of Zippori have been excavated by an archaeological team working on behalf of the
In 2012, a survey of the site was conducted by Zidan Omar on behalf of the
See also
- Al-Burini (1556-1615), Damascus-based Ottoman Arab historian, poet, and Shafi'i jurist
- Battle of Cresson between Crusaders and Muslim troops in 1187, possibly at the Springs of Sepphoris
- Jesus Trail, 65 km (40 mi) hiking and pilgrimage route in the Galilee passing through Sepphoris
- Oldest synagogues in the world
- Shikhin (ancient Asochis), village 1.5 km north of Sepphoris, major pottery production centre in Roman Galilee
- Taha Muhammad Ali (1931–2011), Palestinian poet born in Saffuriyya
- Zodiac mosaics in ancient synagogues
Notes
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External links
- Tzippori excavation project Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Saffuriyya Palestine Remembered
- Safuriyya, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 5: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Saffuryeh, from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh
- Zippori Archived 27 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine Hillel International
- Zippori Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Accessed 9 February 2005.)
- Zippori National Park, official brochure with site map. (Accessed 27 December 2019.)
- Photos of Sepphoris from the Manar al-Athar photo archive