Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports

Marylinda Govaars has over ten years of archaeological field experience both in the United States and overseas. At Caesarea, Govaars worked as assistant surveyor/architect in 1980, and then as head surveyor/architect in 1982 and 1984. Govaars has been consulting with the E. Jerry Vardaman Estate since 2002. Marie Spiro is a specialist in Late Roman and Early Christian art and archaeology, with a particular interest in the study of mosaics. Spiro is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. L. Michael White is an American Biblical scholar. He is Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins, and director of the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins, at the University of Texas at Austin.

• Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xi List of Figures xiii List of Tables xvi Abbreviations xvii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Discovery and Investigations before 1948 5 Chapter 2: Investigations in the 1950s and 1960s 23 Chapter 3: The JECM 1982 and 1984 Seasons 57 Chapter 4: The Missing 1962 Site Plan 103 Chapter 5: Final Analysis and Conclusions 123 Chapter 6: Field O Pavements by Marie Spiro 145 Chapter 7: Inscriptions by L. Michael White 155 Appendix A: Avi-Yonah’s 1956 Report 177 Appendix B: Avi-Yonah’s 1960s Reports 179 Appendix C: Vardaman’s 1962 Field Notes 185 Appendix D: Detailed Descriptions of Photographs 187 Appendix E: Early Archaeological Reports, 1923–1946 197 Appendix F: Activities in Caesarea Maritima Field O 221 Appendix G: Reference Numbers for Walls, Surfaces, and Features 223 Appendix H: Artifacts from Previous Excavations 227 Notes 235 Bibliography 273 Drawing and Photographic Credits 284 Index 285