Proof Positive: How We Used Math to Find Herod’s Palace at Banias
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Footnotes
1. Ehud Netzer, “A Third Candidate: Another Building at Banias,” BAR, September/October 2003.
2. Ehud Netzer, “BAR Readers Restore and Preserve Herodian Jericho,” BAR, November/December 1978; Ehud Netzer, “Herod’s Family Tomb in Jerusalem,” BAR, May/June 1983.
3. Some propose that this temple is located in Omrit, about 3 miles southwest of Banias; see J. Andrew Overman, Jack Olive, and Michael Nelson, “Discovering Herod’s Shrine to Augustus: Mystery Temple Found at Omrit,” BAR, March/April 2003.
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For a detailed discussion, see Rachel Bar-Nathan and Frankie Snyder, “Is the Opus Reticulatum Building at Banias a Palace of Herod the Great? New Insights after Analyzing Its Opus Sectile Floor,” in Orit Peleg-Barkat, Jacob Ashkenazi, Uzi Leibner, Mordechai Aviam, and Rina Talgam, eds., Between Sea and Desert: On Kings, Nomads, Cities and Monks. Essays in Honor of Joseph Patrich, Land of Galilee 5 (Tzemach: Kinneret Academic College and Ostracon, 2019), pp. 23–40.