Abstract
From the 28th of May to the 21st of June, 1978, a team of three individuals conducted a preliminary archaeological survey of the harbors and shoreline of Caesarea Maritima, the major Roman and Byzantine city on the coast of ancient Palestine (Frova 1965, Levine 1975a, 1975b, Ringel 1975). This ancient metropolis and its extraordinary port and habor facilities were constructed by Herod the Great at the end of the First Century B.C. (Oestreicher 1962) and were in use until ca. 640 A.D., when the city and its environs fell to Arab conquerors. The site of Caesarea (32°30.5′N, 34°53.5′E) is located ca. 45 km south of the modern city of Haifa on the Mediterranean coast of Israel and now embraces the farms, residences and industries of Kibbutz Sdot Yam.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Alexandersson, T. 1972. Mediterranean beachrock cementation: marine precipitation of Mg-calcite. The Mediterranean Sea. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Stroudsberg, Penna., 203–223.
Bull, R. J. 1978. The Mithraeum at Caesarea Maritima in Acta Iranica, Textes et Mémoires, Vol. 4: Études Mithriaques. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 75–89.
Bull, R. J. In preparation. Caesarea Maritima: field report 1978. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
Flemming, N. and Raban, A. 1976. Unpublished Report of the Israel Electric Corporation on the Tectonic Stability of the Israel Coastline.
Flemming, N., Raban, A. and Goetschel, C. 1978. Tectonic and Eustatic Changes on the Mediterranean Coast of Israel in the Last 9000 years. In: Beneath the Waters of Time. Texas Antiquities Committee, Austin, 129–165.
Flinder, A. 1976. A piscina at Caesarea-a preliminary survey. Israel Exploration Jour., 26, 77–80.
Fritsch, C. T. 1961. The Link Expedition to Caesarea. Yearbook American Philosophical Society, 1961, 541–542.
Fritsch, C. and Ben-Dor, I. 1961. The Link Expedition to Israel. Biblical Archaeologist, 24, 50–56.
Frova, A. 1965. Scavi di Caesarea Maritima. Istituto Lombardo, Milan, 40–42.
Frova, A. 1965. Scavi di Caesarea Maritima. Istituto Lombardo, Milan, 47–48.
Holum, K., Wiemken, R. and Hohlfelder, R. L. In preparation. Caesarea Maritima: Field Report 1979. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
Hopfe, L. and Lease, G. 1975. The Caesarea Mithraeum: a Preliminary Announcement. Biblical Archaeologist, 38, 2–10.
Josephus. Jewish War, I, 408–414; Jewish Antiquities, XV, 331–341; edited by H. St. J. Thackeray and R. Marcus. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1927, 1963.
Lehmann-Hartleben, K. 1923. Antiken Hafenanlagen des Mittelmeeres. Klio, Beiheft 14, 179–181.
Levine, L. I. 1975a. Caesarea under Roman rule. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 242–268.
Levine, L. I. 1975b. Roman Caesarea. Jerusalem, Qedet, II. 55 pp.
Lewis, J. D. 1973. Cosa: an Early Roman Harbour. Marine Archaeology. Butterworths, London, 233–258.
Linder, E. and Leenhardt, O. 1964. Recherces d’Archéologie Sous-marine sur la Côte Méditerranéenne d’Israel. Revue archéologique, 1, 47–51.
Linder, E. and Raban, A. 1975. Underwater Archaeology. Cassell, London, p. 95.
Neev, D., Bakler, N., Moshkovitz, S., Kaufman, A., Magaritz, M. and Gofna, R. 1973. Recent Faulting along the Mediterranean Coast of Israel. Nature, London, 245, 254–256.
Neev, D., Shachnai, E., Hall, J., Bakler, N. and Ben-Avraham, Z. 1978. The Young (post-lower Pliocene) Geological History of the Caesarea structure. Isr. J. Earth-Sci., 27, 43–64.
Oestreicher, B. 1962. A Contemporary Picture of Caesarea’s Ancient Harbor. Israel Numismatic Bulletin, 2, 44–47.
Olami, Y. and Peleg, Y. 1977. The Water Supply System of Caesarea Maritima. Israel Exploration Jour., 27, 127–137.
Oleson, J. P. 1977. Underwater Survey and Excavation in the Port of Pyrgi (Santa Severa), 1974. Jour, of Field Archaeology, 4, 297–308.
Raban, A. and Linder, E. 1978. Caesarea, the Herodian Harbour. International Jour. of Nautical Archaeology, 7, 238–243.
Ringel, J. 1975. Césarée de Palestine. Editions Ophrys, Paris, 31–39.
Safriel, U. N. 1974. Vermetid gastropods and intertidal reefs in Israel and Bermuda. Science, 186, 1113–1115.
Shaw, J. W. 1978. The Harborage Kenchreai Eastern Port of Corinth, Vol. 1. E. J. Brill, Leiden, pp. 13–38.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1980 Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Hohlfelder, R.L., Oleson, J.P. (1980). Sebastos, the Harbor Complex of Caesarea Maritima, Israel: The Preliminary Report of the 1978 Underwater Explorations. In: Sears, M., Merriman, D. (eds) Oceanography: The Past. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8090-0_68
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8090-0_68
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4613-8092-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-4613-8090-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive