RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A Garden Excavation in the Oasis Palace of Herod the Great at Jericho
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 156
OP 167
DO 10.3368/lj.12.2.156
VO 12
IS 2
A1 Gleason, Kathryn Louise
YR 1993
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/12/2/156.abstract
AB Herod the Great is reemerging in the history of Roman architecture as a brilliant ruler-designer, inspired to build in the most dramatic and difficult landscapes of Judea. One of his more politically important residences lay in the oasis of Jericho, near the Dead Sea, a place imbued with traditions of agricultural wealth and Judaic history. Here he took over a palace from his predecessors, the Hasmoneans, and expanded it with innovative architecture, gardens, and agricultural landscapes. Recent excavations in collaboration with Ehud Netzer have focused on a peristyle garden of the palace. Small in size and simple in design, this garden nonetheless captures the important elements of the oasis estate and provides important evidence for ancient garden design, construction, and planting.