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Caesarea Maritima
 


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Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files.
 
 
Archaeological Evidence
 
Excavation websites
 
 
 
Excavation Reports
 
Bull, Robert J., Edgar M. Krentz, Olin J. Storvick and Marie Spiro.  "The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima: Eleventh Season, 1984."  In Preliminary Excavations Reports: Sardis, Paphos, Caesarea Maritima, Shiqmim, ’Ain Ghazal (ed. William G. Dever; The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 51; Ann Arbor, Michigan: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1994) 63-86.
 
--------.  "The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima: Tenth Season, 1982."  In Preliminary Reports of ASOR-Sponsored Excavations 1982–89 (ed. Walter E. Rast assisted by Marion Zeiger; BASORSup 27; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press for the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1991) 29-34.
 
The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports, 6 vols.  Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1975-2009.
 
Levine, Lee I.  Roman Caesarea: An Archaeological-Topographical Study.  Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1975.
 
Levine, Lee I. and Ehud Netzer.  Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, 1975, 1976, 1979. Final Report.   Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew University, 1986.
 
Patrich, Joseph.  Archaeological Excavations at Caesarea Maritima, Areas Cc, Kk and Nn Final Reports: The Objects.  Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2008.
 
Raban, Avner.  "Caesarea Maritima 1983–1984."  International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 14:2 (1985) 155-77.
 
--------.  "Recent Maritime Archaeological Research in Israel."  International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 12 (1983) 229-51.
 
Raban, Avner and Kenneth G. Holum, eds.  "Site Map and Excavation Areas" and "Plates 1-4."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996).
 
Raban, Avner, John Peter Oleson and Robert L. Hohlfelder.  The Harbours of Caesarea Maritima, vol. 1, The Site and the Excavations, British Archaeological Reports International [number unknown].  Oxford: BAR, 1989.
 
Raban, Avner, with contributions by R. L. Hohlfelder et al.  The Harbours of Caesarea Maritima, vol. 1, Results of the Caesarea Ancient Harbour Excavation Project, 1980-1985, British Archaeological Reports International 491.1.  Oxford: BAR, 1989.
 
Roller, Duane W.  "The Wilfred Laurier University Survey of Northeastern Caesarea Maritima."  Levant 14 (1982) 90-103.
 
 
Associated Artifacts
 
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Applebaum, Shimon.  "Betthar and the Roman Road System."  Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins 103 (1987) 137-40.
 
Artzy, M., Z. Gal, B. Goodman and Avner Raban.The Harbour of Sebastos (Caesarea Maritima) in Its Roman Mediterranean Context, BAR International Series 1930.  Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2010.
 
Ayalon, Etan.  The Assemblage of Bone and Ivory Artifacts from Caesarea Maritima, Israel, 1st-13th Centuries CE, BAR International Series 1457.  Oxford: Archaeopress, 2005.
 
Barag, Dan.  "The Legal and Administrative Status of the Port of Sebastos during the Early Roman Period."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 609-614.
 
Barton, Ian M.  "Religious Buildings."  In Roman Public Buildings (ed. Ian M. Barton; Exeter Studies in History 20; Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989) 67-96, pls. 7, 14-21.
 
Beebe, H. Keith.  "Caesarea Maritima: Its Strategic and Political Importance to Rome."  Journal of Near Eastern Studies 42:3 (1983) 195-207.
 
Blackman, David J.  "Further Evidence for the Use of Concrete in Ancient Harbor Construction."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 41-9.
 
Blakely, Jeffrey A.  "Ceramics and Commerce: Amphorae from Caesarea Maritima."  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 271 (1988) 31-50.
 
--------.  "Toward the Study of Economics at Caesarea Maritima."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 327-45.
 
Boyce, Joseph I., Eduard G. Reinhardt, Avner Raban and Matthew R. Pozza.  "Marine Magnetic Survey of a Submerged Roman Harbour, Caesarea Maritima, Israel."  International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 33:1 (2004) 122-35.
 
Brandon, Christopher.  "Cements, Concrete, and Settling Barges at Sebastos: Comparisons with Other Roman Harbor Examples and the Descriptions of Vitruvius."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 25-40.
 
Brothers, A. J.  "Buildings for Entertainment."  In Roman Public Buildings (ed. Ian M. Barton; Exeter Studies in History 20; Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989) 97-125, pls. 22-29.
 
Burrell, Barbara.  "Palace to Praetorium: The Romanization of Caesarea."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 228-47.
 
--------.  "Two Inscribed Columns from Caesarea Maritima."  Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 99 (1993) 287-95.
 
Carter, John.  "Civic and Other Buildings."  In Roman Public Buildings (ed. Ian M. Barton; Exeter Studies in History 20; Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989) 31-65, pls. 2, 5-13.
 
Cotton, Hannah M. and Werner Eck.  Governors and Their Personnel on Latin Inscriptions from Caesarea Maritima, Proceedings, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 7.7.  Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2001.
 
--------.  "A New Inscription from Caesarea Maritima and the Local Elite of Caesarea Maritima."  In What Athens Has to Do with Jerusalem: Essays on Classical, Jewish, and Early Christian Art and Archaeology in Honor of Gideon Foerster (ed. Leonard Victor Rutgers; Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 1; Leuven: Peeters, 2002) 375-91.
 
Di Segni, Leah, Joseph Patrich and Kenneth G. Holum.  "A Schedule of Fees ('Sportulae') for Official Services from Caesarea Maritima, Israel."  Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 145 (2003) 273-300.
 
Evans, Jane DeRose.  "Ancient Coins from The Drew Institute of Archaeological Research Excavations of Caesarea Maritima, 1971-1984."  Biblical Archaeologist 58:3 (1995) 156-66.
 
Everman, Diane Marie.  "The Water Supply System of Caesarea Maritima: A Historical Study."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 1997.
 
Fai, Stephen.  "Architecture and Conflict in Caesarea Maritima."  In Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (ed. Terence L. Donaldson; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme 8; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses, 2000) 267-78.
 
Fischer, Moshe.  "Marble, Urbanism, and Ideology in Roman Palestine: The Caesarea Example."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 251-61.
 
Fitzgerald, Michael A., John Peter Oleson, Andrew N. Sherwood and Steven E. Sidebotham.  Harbours of Caesarea Maritima, vol. 2, The Finds and the Ship, British Archaeological Reports International 491.2.  Oxford: BAR, 1994.
 
Foerster, Gideon.  "Marble Sculpture of the Roman Period in the Near East and Its Hellenistic Origins."  In Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (ed. Yaron Z. Eliav, Elise A. Friedland and Sharon Herbert; Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 9; Dudley, Massachusetts: Peeters, 2008) 69-90.
 
Gersht, Rivka.  "Caesarean Sculpture in Context."  In Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (ed. Yaron Z. Eliav, Elise A. Friedland and Sharon Herbert; Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 9; Dudley, Massachusetts: Peeters, 2008) 509-538.
 
--------.  "Dionysiac Sarcophagi from Caesarea Maritima."  Israel Exploration Journal 41:1-3 (1991) 145-56.
 
--------.  "A Fragmentary Statue from Caesarea Maritima."  Scripta classica Israelica 7 (1983–1984) 53-7.
 
--------.  "Imported Sarcophagi from Caesarea Maritima and Tyre."  In Homenaje a José María Blázquez, vol. 3, Historia de Roma (ed. Julio Mangas and Jaime Alvar; ARYS 2; Madrid: Clésicas, 1996) 51-73.
 
--------.  "Representations of Deities and the Cults of Caesarea."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 305-324.
 
--------.  "Three Greek and Roman Portrait Statues from Caesarea Maritima."  Atiqot 28 (1996) 99-113.
 
--------.  "The Tyche of Caesarea Maritima."  Palestine Exploration Quarterly 116 (1984) 110-114.
 
Gianfrotta, Piero A.  "Harbor Construction of the Augustan Age in Italy."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 65-76.
 
Gleason, Kathryn L.  "Ruler and Spectacle: The Promontory Palace."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 208-227.
 
Gleason, Kathryn L., et al.  "The Promontory Palace at Caesarea Maritima: Preliminary Evidence for Herod's ''Praetorium''."  Journal of Roman Archaeology 11 (1998) 23-52.
 
Hodge, A. Trevor.  "Aqueducts."  In Roman Public Buildings (ed. Ian M. Barton; Exeter Studies in History 20; Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989) 127-49, pls. 30-40.
 
Hohlfelder, Robert L.  "Beyond Coincidence? Marcus Agrippa and King Herod's Harbor."  Journal of Near Eastern Studies 59:4 (2000) 241-53.
 
--------.  "Building Sebastos: The Cyprus Connection."  International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 28:2 (1999) 154-63.
 
--------.  "Caesarea Maritima in Late Antiquity: An Introduction to the Numismatic Evidence."  In Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World.  The Nickle Numismatic Papers (ed. Waldemar Heckel and Richard Sullivan; The Nickle Conference 1981; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1984) 261-85.
 
--------.  "Caesarea's Master Harbor Builders: Lessons Learned, Lessons Applied?"  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 77-101.
 
--------.  "An Experiment in Controlled Excavation beneath Caesarea Maritima's Sea, 1990."  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 290-291 (1993) 95-107.
 
--------.  "Romancing the Mud in the Harbour of Caesarea Maritima, Israel."  In Ancient History in a Modern University: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Macquarie University, 8-13 July 1993 To Mark the Twenty-five Years of the Teaching of Ancient History at Macquarrie University and the Retirement from the Chair of Professor Edwin Judge, vol. 1, The Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome (ed. Tom W. Hillard, R. A. Kearsley, C. E. V. Nixon and A. M. Nobbs; North Ryde, N.S.W./Grand Rapids, Michigan: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University/William B. Eerdmans, 1998) 1.316-27.
 
Hohlfelder, Robert L., John P. Oleson, Avner Raba, and R. Lindley Vann.  "Sebastos: Herod's Harbor at Caesarea Maritima."  Biblical Archaeologist 46:3 (1983) 133-43.
 
Holum, Kenneth G.  "Caesarea's Fortune: Ancient Statuary and the Beholder in a Late Antique City."  In Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (ed. Yaron Z. Eliav, Elise A. Friedland and Sharon Herbert; Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 9; Dudley, Massachusetts: Peeters, 2008) 539-58.
 
--------.  "Caesarea's Temple Hill: The Archaeology of Sacred Space in an Ancient Mediterranean City."  Near Eastern Archaeology 67:4 (2004) 184-99.
 
Holum, Kenneth G. and Avner Raban.  "Introduction."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) xxvii-xliv.
 
Holum, Kenneth G., Avner Raban and Joseph. Patrich, eds.  Caesarea Papers 2. Herod's Temple, the Provincial Governor's Praetorium and Granaries, the Later Harbor, a Gold Coin Hoard, and Other Studies, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 35.  Ann Arbor, Michigan; University of Michigan Press, 1998.
 
Holum, Kenneth G., Robert L. Hohlfelder, Robert L. Vann and Roberta Blender Maltese.  King Herod's Dream: Caesarea on the Sea.  New York: Norton, 1988.
 
Hopfe, Lewis M.  "Caesarea Palaestinae as a Religious Center."  In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung, Teil 2, Principat 18.4 (ed. Wolfgang Haase and Hildegard Temporini; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1990) 2380-2411.
 
Humphrey, John H.  "'Amphitheatrical' Hippo-Stadia."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 121-9.
 
Kahn, Lisa C.  "King Herod's Temple of Roma and Augustus at Caesarea Maritima."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 130-45.
 
Kingsley, Sean A.  "Pots and Ports: Quantifying Trade in Ancient Palestine."  Strata: Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 27 (2009) 161-5.
 
Kloppenborg, John S.  "Ethnic and Political Factors in the Conflict at Caesarea Maritima."  In Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (ed. Terence L. Donaldson; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme 8; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses, 2000) 227-48.
 
Last, Rosa and Arnon Angert.  "Inscribed Slab from Caesarea Maritima."  Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 114 (1996) 288.
 
Lehmann, Clayton Miles.  "Another Inscribed Column from Caesarea Maritima."  Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 51 (1983) 191-5, pl. XIII.
 
Levine, Lee I.  Caesarea under Roman Rule.  Leiden: Brill, 1975.
 
Linder, Elisha.  "The Genesis of Scientific Underwater Exploration in Israel Centered at Caesarea, under the Patronage of Baron Edmond de Rothschild."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 677-80.
 
McLean, Bradley H.  "Epigraphical Evidence in Caesarea Maritima."  In Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (ed. Terence L. Donaldson; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme 8; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses, 2000) 57-64.
 
--------.  "The Inscriptions of Caesarea and Their Relation to the Physical Remains of the City: Part 1. The Ancient City and Its Harbour."  The Ancient World 28:2 (1997) 184-216.
 
Murray, Michele.  "Jews and Judaism in Caesarea Maritima."  In Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (ed. Terence L. Donaldson; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme 8; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses, 2000) 127-52.
 
Netzer, Ehud.  "The Promontory Palace."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 193-207.
 
Oleson, John Peter, with contributions from Robert L. Hohlfelder, Andrew N. Sherwood and Steven E. Sidebotham.  "Artifactual Evidence for the History of the Harbors of Caesarea."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 359-77.
 
Painter, Robert Jackson.  "Greco-Roman Religion in Caesarea Maritima."  In Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (ed. Terence L. Donaldson; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme 8; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses, 2000) 105-125.
 
--------.  "Mithraism and the Religious Context at Caesarea Maritima."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1994. [Professor has copy]
 
--------.  "The Origins and Social Context of Mithraism at Caesarea Maritima."  In Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (ed. Terence L. Donaldson; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme 8; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses, 2000) 205-225.
 
Patrich, Joseph.  "The carceres of the Herodian Hippodrome/Stadium at Caesarea Maritima and Connections with the Circus Maximus."  Journal of Roman Archaeology 14:1 (2001) 269-83.
 
--------.  "Herod's Hippodrome-Stadium at Caesarea and the Games Conducted Therein."  In What Athens Has to Do with Jerusalem: Essays on Classical, Jewish, and Early Christian Art and Archaeology in Honor of Gideon Foerster (ed. Leonard Victor Rutgers; Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 1; Leuven: Peeters, 2002) 29-68.
 
--------.  Studies in the Archaeology and History of Caesarea Maritima: Caput Judaeae, Metropolis Palaestinae, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 77.  Leiden: Brill, 2011.
 
--------.  "More on the Hippodrome-Stadium of Caesarea Maritima: A Response to the Comments of Y. Porath."  Journal of Roman Archaeology 16:2 (2003) 456-9.
 
--------.  "Warehouses and Granaries in Caesarea Maritima."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 146-76.
 
Plommer, Hugh.  "Scythopolis, Caesarea and Vitruvius: Sounding-vessels in Ancient Theatres."  Levant 15 (1983) 132-40.
 
Pollini, John.  "Gods and Emperors in the East: Images of Power and the Power of Intolerance."  In Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (ed. Yaron Z. Eliav, Elise A. Friedland and Sharon Herbert; Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 9; Dudley, Massachusetts: Peeters, 2008) 165-94.
 
Porath, Yosef.  "The Evolution of the Urban Plan of Caesarea's Southwest Zone: New Evidence from the Current Excavations."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 105-120.
 
--------.  "Herod's 'Amphitheatre' at Caesarea: A Multipurpose Entertainment Building."  In The Roman and Byzantine Near East: Some Recent Archaeological Research (ed. John H. Humphrey; JRASup 14; Ann Arbor, Michigan: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1995) 1.15-27.
 
--------.  "Herod's Circus at Caesarea: A Response to J. Patrich (JRA 14, 269-83)."  Journal of Roman Archaeology 16:2 (2003) 451-5.
 
--------.  "The Tunnel of Caesarea Maritima's High Level Aqueduct at the Kurkar Ridge (Jisr ez-Zarqa)."  Atiqot 30 (1996) 23*-43* [Hebrew]; English summary on pp. 126-7.  [English summary on Camino; Professor has copy of Hebrew article]
 
Raban, Avner.  "The City Walls of Straton's Tower. Some New Archaeological Data."  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 268 (1987) 71-88.
 
--------.  The Harbour of Sebastos (Caesarea Maritima) in Its Roman Mediterranean Context, BAR International Series 1930.  Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009.
 
--------.  "The Inner Harbor Basin of Caesarea: Archaeological Evidence for Its Gradual Demise."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 628-66.
 
--------.  "Sebastos: The Royal Harbour at Caesarea Maritima—A Short-lived Giant."  International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 21:2 (1992) 111-24.
 
Raban, Avner, ed.  Harbour Archaeology. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Ancient Mediterranean Harbours Caesarea Maritima 24-28.6.83, British Archaeological Reports International 257.  Oxford: BAR, 1985.
 
Richardson, Peter.  "Archaeological Evidence for Religion and Urbanism in Caesarea Maritima."  In Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (ed. Terence L. Donaldson; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme 8; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses, 2000) 11-34.
 
--------.  City and Sanctuary: Religion and Architecture in the Roman Near East.  London: SCM, 2002.
 
Rickman, Geoffrey E.  "Portus in Perspective."  In "Roman Ostia" Revisited: Archaeological and Historical Papers in Memory of Russell Meiggs (ed. Anna Gallina Zevi and Amanda Claridge; London: British School at Rome, in collaboration with the Soprintendenza archeologia di Ostia, 1996) 281-91. '' [Essay is about the port of Rome, but comparisons are made to Caesarea Maritima]''
 
Ringel, Joseph.  "Literary Sources and Numismatic Evidence of Maritime Activity in Caesarea during the Roman Period."  In Mediterranean Cities: Historical Perspectives (ed. Irad Malkin and Robert L. Hohlfelder; London: Cass, 1988) 63-73.
 
Roll, Israel.  "Roman Roads to Caesarea Maritima."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 549-58.
 
Stieglitz, Robert R.  "Stratonos Pyrgos–Migdal Śar–Sebastos: History and Archaeology."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 593-608.
 
Sussman, Varda.  "Caesarea Illuminated by Its Lamps."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 346-58.
 
Turnheim, Yehudit and Asher Ovadiah.  Art in the Public and Private Spheres in Roman Caesarea Maritima: Temples, Architectural Decoration and Tesserae.  Rome: G. Bretschneider, 2002.
 
--------.  "Miscellaneous Ornamented Architectural Elements in Roman Caesarea."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 262-304.
 
Vann, Robert L., ed.  Caesarea Papers. Straton's Tower, Herod's Harbour, and Roman and Byzantine Caesarea, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 5.  Ann Arbor, Michigan; University of Michigan Press, 1992.
 
--------.  "The Drusion: A Candidate for Herod's Lighthouse at Caesarea Maritima."  International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 20:2 (1991) 123-39.
 
--------.  "Underwater Excavations in Herod's Harbor at Caesarea Maritima."  Archaeological News 16 (1991) 61-70.
 
--------.  "Vaulting Tubes from Caesarea Maritima."  Israel Exploration Journal 43:1 (1993) 29-34.
 
Vardaman, E. Jerry and Marylinda Govaars.  Photographs of Caesarea Maritima, Israel.  Indianapolis: Dog Ear, 2008.
 
Weiss, Ze'ev.  "The Jews and the Games in Roman Caesarea."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 443-53.
 
Williams-Thorpe, Olwen and Michael M. Henty.  "The Sources of Roman Granite Columns in Israel."  Levant: The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant 32 (2000) 155-70.
 
Wilson, Andrew.  "Deliveries extra urbem: Aqueducts and the Countryside" and Philippe Leveau, "Appendix: Quelques réflexions sur Caesarea/Cherchel et Barbegal."  Journal of Roman Archaeology 12 (1999) 314-32.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
  • Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 15.331-41

  • Josephus, Jewish War 1.408-415

  • Mishnah Oholot 18:9

  • Procopius, De aedificiis 1.11.18-20
  • Hohlfelder, Robert L.  "Procopius, De aedificiis, 1.11.18-20: Caesarea Maritima and the Building of Harbours in Late Antiquity."  In Mediterranean Cities: Historical Perspectives (ed. Irad Malkin and Robert L. Hohlfelder; London: Cass, 1988) 54-62.
    Tosefta Ahilot 18:13
 
Connections of Material to Jesus: Secondary Literature
 
Cotter, Wendy J.  "Cornelius, the Roman Army and Religion."  In Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (ed. Terence L. Donaldson; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme 8; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses, 2000) 279-301.
 
Johnson, Lee A.  "A Literary Guide to Caesarea Maritima."  In Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (ed. Terence L. Donaldson; Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme 8; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses, 2000) 35-56.
 
Lehmann, Clayton Miles.  "The City and the Text."  In Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Documenta et monumenta Orientis antiqui 21; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996) 381-91.
 
 
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