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Caesarea
Maps & Plans: Triclinium
You Are Here  Ehud
Netzer directed the first systematic excavations on the promontory in
1976 with L. I.Levine and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The team documented
the rock cuttings on the promontory and began digging the one preserved
side of the building: the east range of rooms. The results suggested
a luxuriously-appointed building of some 110 x 55m. The east range comprised
large central hall, or triclinium (93.5m2),
with two small flanking rooms to each side. The triclinium and one room
on each side were adorned with well-crafted geometric mosaics (below
left) and traces of wall plaster imitating marble revetment. An entrance
stair was located at the northeast corner. The earliest pottery from
the site, recovered in a sounding near the entrance stairway, dates
to the late 1st c. B.C..-early 1st c. A.D., but the context of this
material was unclear and further clarification was needed. Read more Details in Excavations |
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