A ROMAN-PERIOD JEWISH PERISTYLE HOUSE WITH A MIQWEH AT CAESAREA MARITIMA

Joseph Patrich

doi:10.70967/2948-040X.2524

A ROMAN-PERIOD JEWISH PERISTYLE HOUSE WITH A MIQWEH AT CAESAREA MARITIMA

Joseph Patrich^*

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Institute of Archaeology

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Abstract

An example of a miqweh—the Jewish ritual bath—was uncovered in a Roman bathhouse located in the northwestern corner of a Roman villa of the peristyle type. This villa and its bathhouse, first built in the early first century CE, was dismantled early in the third century with the miqweh being maintained and even embellished. This fact indicates that wealthy Jews continued to flourish in the city even after the calamity caused by the Great Jewish Revolt against Rome (66–70 CE), in which the Jewish population of Caesarea took part.

Original language	English
Journal	ATIQOT
Volume	121
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.2524
State	Published - 2026

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© 2026, the author(s) and the Israel Antiquities Authority This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Keywords

Caesarea Maritima
Miqwa‘ot
Roman period
bathhouse
miqweh
villa

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