Zodiac mosaics in ancient synagogues

Helios-zodiac cycle, Beth Alpha Synagogue

Zodiac mosaics in ancient synagogues are known from at least eight examples from Palestine in the 4th-6th centuries CE during the Byzantine period. As a typical arrangement, the mosaic floors of such synagogues consisted of three panels, the central one containing the Jewish zodiac.[1]

  1. ^ Hachlili 1977, pp. 61.