TY - JOUR T1 - A Garden Excavation in the Oasis Palace of Herod the Great at Jericho JF - Landscape Journal SP - 156 LP - 167 DO - 10.3368/lj.12.2.156 VL - 12 IS - 2 AU - Kathryn Louise Gleason Y1 - 1993/09/21 UR - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/12/2/156.abstract N2 - 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. ER -