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A Walk to Caesarea: A Historical-Archaeological Perspective 13
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Fig. 15a Fig. 15b
Herod’s palace, proposed reconstruction. View from the southwest Herod’s palace, proposed reconstruction. View from the northwest
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Agrippa’s Visit to Judaea (15 BCE)
“And Herod, omitting nothing that might please him, received him in his newly founded cities and, while
showing him his buildings, diverted him and his friends with enjoyable food and luxury; this he did both
in Sebaste and in Caesarea, at the harbor which had been constructed by him, and in the fortresses which
he had built at great expense, Alexandrion, Herodeion and Hyrcania” (Josephus, Ant. 15, 2, 1–13; trans. R.
Marcus).
