Horvat Shema'

tomb · 330 BC – 1291 AD

Ancient synagogue site and burial place of Rabbi Shamai just south of Meron, Israel. The site was occupied in the early 1st century BCE, again from the late 2nd to the late 3rd, from the early 4th century to the mid-7th century, from this point until the mid-9th century, and finally from the mid-12th century until the late-13th century.