Hippos (Sussita) of the Decapolis : the civic basilica and the Southern Bathhouse / Arleta Kowalewska, Michael Eisenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kowalewska, Arleta, author.

Eisenberg, Michael, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Susita (Extinct city).

Galilee (Israel)--Antiquities.

Galilee (Israel).

Israel--Galilee.

Israel.

Physical Description:

536 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park : Eisenbrauns, [2026]

Summary:

"Hippos of the Decapolis, perched on Mt. Sussita just east of the Sea of Galilee, has been excavated since 2000 by the Hippos Excavations Project on behalf of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa. After twenty-five years of investigation, Hippos is one of the most systematically explored cities of the Decapolis and among the best-documented Classical sites in the southern Levant. This volume presents a detailed study of two centrally located monumental public buildings that reflect the peak of Hippos’s prosperity in the mid-first through third centuries CE: the civic basilica and the Southern Bathhouse. The strata below and above the remains of these Roman-period buildings reveal the city’s earlier Hellenistic and Early Roman phases and its later Byzantine and Early Islamic occupation up to the 749 CE earthquake, when the site was abandoned. The fully exposed civic basilica, constructed at the end of the first century CE and brought down by the 363 CE earthquake, is the smallest but the most thoroughly studied among the known basilicae of Roman Greater Syria and Arabia. The Southern Bathhouse, built in the second century CE, has over half of its plan revealed by excavations. Together with the full record of ceramic building materials and portable finds, it is one of the most thoroughly published examples of these marvels of Roman engineering in the Near East. This comprehensive publication makes a significant contribution to the study of Roman civic and bathing architecture, urbanism, and material culture, offering essential resources for Classical-period archaeologists, historians of the Roman East, and specialists in Greco-Roman studies." --Publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Arleta Kowalewska and Michael Eisenberg

The civic basilica of Hippos / Michael Eisenberg

The southern bathhouse of Hippos / Arleta Kowalewska

Pottery finds 2012–2016 at Hippos: Basilica and southern bathhouse / Peretz Reuven and Arleta Kowalewska

Pottery finds 2017–2018 at Hippos: Southern bathhouse / Vladimir Lehem

Ceramic building materials at Hippos: Hypocaustum of the southern bathhouse and civic basilica roof tiles / Arleta Kowalewska

Marble architectural fragments of the Roman basilica at Hippos / Antonio Dell’Acqua

Osteological study of the skeletal remains recovered from the civic basilica at Hippos / Ariana Dann and Hila May

An Aramaic dipinto on a sherd from Hippos / Ohad Abudraham and Michael Eisenberg

Coin finds 2012–2018 and an updated conspectus of coins found at Hippos / Danny Syon

Metal finds from the basilica and the southern bathhouse at Hippos / Nina Koskanen, Arleta Kowalewska, Alexander Iermolin, and Michael Eisenberg

Iron nails from the civic basilica and the southern bathhouse at Hippos / Nina Koskanen

Glass from the late Roman and the late Byzantine–early Islamic dumps and special glass finds from the basilica and the southern bathhouse at Hippos / Ruth E. Jackson-Tal

Other finds from the basilica and the southern bathhouse at Hippos / Arleta Kowalewska and Michael Eisenberg

Summary / Michael Eisenberg and Arleta Kowalewska

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [511]-515) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781646023424

1646023420

OCLC:

1534684613

Publisher Number:

90104363216

CIPO000353863