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A Walk to Caesarea: A Historical-Archaeological Perspective 9

Herodian Caesarea Aqueduct Fig. 11
Map of the Herodian
(up to 70 CE) city

Northern Cloaca

Towers Dwellings Wall
Outer Harbor

Inner Cardo Maximus
Harbor Cardo E1

Temple Cardo E2
Wall Street
Decumanus Maximus
East Gate

Decumanus S1Diagonal Street

Decumanus S2

Villa
Decumanus S3
Amphitheatre/Hippo-Stadium
Cardo W1

Cardo Maximus
Cardo E1

Cardo E2
Wall Street
Decumanus S4
Decumanus S5

Herod’s
Palace

Theater Wall Excavated wall
Projected wall

m

Caesarea and is most beautiful both in material and in construction. But below the city the underground
passages and sewers cost no less effort than the structures built above them. Of these some led at equal
distances from one another to the harbor and the sea, while one diagonal passage connected all of them,
so that the rainwater and the refuse of the inhabitants were easily carried off together. And whenever the
sea was driven in from offshore, it would flow through the whole city and flush it from below. Herod also
built a theater of stone in the city, and on the south side of the harbor, farther back, an amphitheater large
enough to hold a great crowd of people and conveniently situated for a view of the sea. Now the city
was completed in the space of twelve years, for the king did not slacken in the undertaking and he had
sufficient means for the expenses” (Ant. 15.331–341; trans. R. Marcus).