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deliberations. It was to here that the Apostle Paul was Fig. 76
brought for trial (58–60 CE) in front of the governors Herod’s palace, aerial photo
Felix and Festus. Some seventy years later, Rabbi
Aqiba stood trial here before the governor Tineius Fig. 77
Rufus, and in this praetorium he was imprisoned for Herod’s palace, plan of
over three years, while his students ministered to him. the upper terrace and the
In this location he was tortured and died. Here, too, southern edge of the stadium
the trials of the Christian martyrs of Caesarea were
held about 175 years later. The rooms of the eastern “Amphiteatron”
suite surrounded a courtyard with a fountain in its Hippo-stadium
center (Fig. 82d).
Upper
Terrace

Mediterranean Sea