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MEIDAD SUCHOWOLSKI, THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, JERUSALEM/CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA

KING HEROD’S IN THE BATHTUB. The stone industry flourished during and after Herod the Great’s reign. This bathtub was excavated in the bath house at the top of Herod’s mountain fortress at Kypros. While there are no large public baths in Palestine from the early Roman period, private, small baths and tubs became wide-spread, testifying to the habit of private washing in Roman Palestine.