A Provincial Palace (Praetorium) in Tiberias? The Archaeological Finds and the Evidence of the Literary Sources.
The large building (ca. 2500 sq. m.) of interest in this article is located in the southern civic center of the old city of Tiberias. It is symmetrical in plan, a basilical hall oriented east-west served as its core, and it has been dated to the third or fourth century CE. Underneath, in a deeper la...
| Publicado en: | Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 41; pp. 77 - 108 |
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Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
2022
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