Sepphoris, “the ornament of all Galilee” according to Josephus,
was an important Galilean site during the Hellenistic, Roman, and
Byzantine periods and into early Islamic times. It served as Herod
Antipas’s capital of Galilee in the late first century B.C.E. and
the early first century C.E., and the Sanhedrin (the supreme Jewish
judicial authority) was located there for a time in the third
century C.E. Extensive excavations on the western
acropolis—probably the location of many of the Jewish occupants
of this multicultural city—by the Duke University-Hebrew
University project in the mid- to late 1980s and the Duke
excavations of the 1990s produced a remarkable assemblage of
ceramic wares. This book provides an overview of the history and
chronology of the site. It then presents a detailed examination of
the pottery. Featuring 55 plates with line-drawings as well as some
photos of the various ceramic types, this important publication
will be essential for all studies of the archaeology of early
Judaism and Christianity in the Holy Land.
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