Archaeological evidence for a previously unrecognised Roman town near the Sea of Galilee

Dark, K. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9116-8068 (2013) Archaeological evidence for a previously unrecognised Roman town near the Sea of Galilee. Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 145 (3). pp. 185-202. ISSN 1743-1301 doi: 10.1179/0031032813Z.00000000057

Abstract/Summary

Fieldwalking in the Ginosar valley recorded an extensive spread of Late Hellenistic, Roman-period and Byzantine ceramics, tesserae, glass shards, and stone vessel fragments. Architectural stonework in modern Migdal, on the hilltop immediately west of this, seems, in part, to derive from the same site, which extended into the area of the present town. This suggests an urban centre immediately adjacent to, but probably separate from, the Roman-period site usually identified asMagdala, providing a context for the first-century boat currently displayed in the Yigdal Allon museum. The settlement may be identified with one of the un-located toponyms of the coast.