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Caesarea Maritima was built by Herod the Great on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, 53 km north of Joppa (modern Jaffa), about halfway between modern-day Tel Aviv and Haifa (Stern, NEAEHL, 270). In ancient Greek and Latin sources, the city is never referred to as “Caesarea Maritima.” It is simply Caesarea, or sometimes “Caesarea Palestinae” (Josephus, Jewish War 7.23; Philo, On the Embassy to Gaius 305). Caesarea was built upon the earlier site of Straton’s Tower (Josephus, Antiquities 13.313). Construction of the new harbor city occurred between approximately 22 and 10/9 bc by Herod the Great. The writings of Josephus gave the impression that it was a grand city, meant to display the importance of Herod and Augustus (Hohlfelder, Oleson, Raban, and Vann, “Sebastos: Herod’s Harbor at Caesarea Maritima,” 133).

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