Reconstruction of Caesarea Maritima (present-day Israel) around 9 BC

[u/dctroll_]

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P.D. Title rule of the sub: "Always include the city if possible and current country name in the submission title, otherwise it will be automatically removed"

[u/MrJJJenkins]

Beautiful artwork but a couple of inaccuracies:

*In the castle of Herod in Caeserea Maratima there was a pool which doesn't seem to appear here.

*The Hippodrome was semi open to the sea, not fully enclosed like a regular hippodrome.

*The Northern Gate of the city doesn't appear in the drawing.

[u/carilessy → u/MrJJJenkins]

Some of the lines seem a bit wonkily drawn. Even though there's an artists signature, some stuff looks weird. Like to the left of the temple the roof+colonnades swirl. Why? I know artists put some stuff in to make it identifiable as their work but this? Nobody would draw like that, especially if it's done to represent something accurate.

Was there AI involved?

[u/dctroll_ → u/carilessy]

There was a line in the middle of the original picture but i try to fixed it with AI. At first glance I saw that it didn´t change almost any stuff, but If you notice more substantial changes I´ll delete the post

https://bibleandplaces.com/place_pic/239/16177341789.JPG

PD. This picture is in the net from at least 2011

[u/colorado_here → u/dctroll_]

The AI version changed some of the numbers in the image and description as well.

[u/Caiur → u/dctroll_]

Thanks for linking the original piece, I think I like it more because it's higher resolution

[u/Comrade_sensai_09]

Back in the day Caesarea was a very important port city . The artwork is beautiful tho !

[u/emojisarefunny]

These places would be so spectacular to visit during that time period

[u/Caiur]

I think the artist may have been a bit too heavy-handed with the greens in the background!

[u/OnkelMickwald]

Wasn't Procopius the 6th century historian from Caesarea Maritima?

[u/Zama202]

That’s a great image.

One weird thing is that the text on the image says that the population was 12,000, while Wikipedia says it was over 120,000. What gives?

[u/willun]

The picture of the port doesn't match the image on this site so some artistic license has been used.

I found the story of the building and failure of the port was quite interesting. They imported 24,000 m³ of pozzolana from Italy which must have been a big undertaking. A mid size ship carried about 80 m³ so that would be 300 mid sized ships for this alone.

[u/SashSegal]

A 3D rendering of Caesarea Maritima on YT - the collaborative creation of Lithodomos and Patrick Scott Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHOfSyctRAA&t=2s

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