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Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Final Reports, Volume 1 - The Temple Platform, Neighboring Quarters, and the Inner Harbor Quays: Hellenistic Evidence, King Herod's Harbor Temple, Intermediate Occupation, and the Octagonal Harbor Church (Hardcover)
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Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Final Reports, Volume 1 - The Temple Platform, Neighboring Quarters, and the Inner Harbor Quays: Hellenistic Evidence, King Herod's Harbor Temple, Intermediate Occupation, and the Octagonal Harbor Church (Hardcover)
Series: Archaeological Reports
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The results of the many years of excavation by the Combined
Caesarea Expeditions, a project to explore the city and harbour of
ancient Caesarea, built by the Jewish king, Herod the Great, at the
end of the first century BCE. The volume publishes the discoveries
on land, both on the Temple Platform (Area TP), built by Herod for
his magnificent harbour temple to Roma and Augustus, the
neighbouring quarters (Areas TPS and Z), and in the Inner Harbor
quays (Area I). Holum presents CCE's original research questions,
the overall stratigraphy of the site, and the team's findings about
Caesarea from the Hellenistic period to the end of antiquity in the
seventh century CE. In so doing, the book makes a significant
contribution to our understanding of the transition from paganism
to Christianity in Late Antiquity. It explores in depth King
Herod's pagan temple, which existed until about 400 CE, when the
now Christian authorities deliberately dismantled it, removing all
but its deepest foundations, and let the site lose its holiness. A
century later, in 500 CE, the authorities built a grand Octagonal
Church in exactly the same spot and on the same alignment as
Herod's temple, so that it functioned as a harbour church, visible
from far at sea. In the Byzantine period, Caesarea prospered and
reached its largest extent. This book presents the archaeological
evidence for these developments, paying careful attention to the
foundations of the temple and church, fragments of the
superstructure of both monumental buildings, the Herodian and
Byzantine staircases that rose directly from the harbour to the
temple and church, the pottery, coins, and other evidence, as well
as of the vibrant city which surrounded these commanding religious
structures.
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