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JERUSALEM – Vandals badly damaged a rare 1,600-year-old mosaic in the northernIsraeli city of Tiberias that formed the floor of an ancientsynagogue, smashing parts to rubble and scrawling graffiti,antiquity officials said Tuesday. Experts suspect extremist Jews who object, sometimes violently, toexcavations they claim involve ancient grave sites. There was noclaim of responsibility. Police are investigating. Guards found the damage on Tuesday morning, said archeologistsinvolved in the site.
The mosaic, dating 400 years after the birth of Jesus, was one ofthe best preserved and beautiful of its period, according toarchaeologists. It featured illustrated zodiac signs and the traditional symbolismof a fourth-century synagogue: ritual candelabras and palm fronds.The synagogue's ruins, including its ancient mosaic floor, were ina fenced-off area of a national park in Tiberias, next to the Seaof Galilee. It listed the names of the synagogue's chief patrons in ancientHebrew, Latin and Greek. Israel Antiquities Authority deputy director Uzi Dahari said afringe group of ultra-Orthodox Jews were suspected of causing thedamage, much of it irreversible.
Dahari said the graffiti scrawledacross parts of the archaeological site and previous threatsagainst the Antiquities Authority suggested they were theperpetrators. Photographs issued by the Antiquities Authority showed parts of themosaic floor reduced to gray chunks of rubble. Other photographsshowed blue spray paint scrawled over the mosaic, covering ancientHebrew and Greek letters spelled out in blue, red and beige tiles.Graffiti was also scrawled along rock walls beside the mosaic.Perpetrators also punched a hole in the mosaic between twocandelabras. "On every grave, a site," one neatly written Hebrew slogan said.
Dahari and other archaeologists said it referred to constantaccusations by a tiny Jewish hard-line group that the AntiquitiesAuthority was digging up Jewish graves. Disturbing Jewish graves isa deeply offensive act for devout Jews. Archeologists said they have found similar graffiti on other sites.The Hebrew word for "site" is also shorthand for an archaeologicalsite, as in English. An archaeologist who frequently works in the Galilee area, GiladKinamon, said ultra-Orthodox Jews frequently turned up to his sitesto demonstrate against his work. "It was the best of Jewish art of its time, of the late Roman andearly Byzantine period," said Dahari.
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