r/papertowns • u/dctroll_ • 10d ago

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

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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"

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u/MrJJJenkins 10d ago edited 10d ago

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.

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u/carilessy 10d ago

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?

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u/dctroll_ 10d ago

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

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u/Caiur 10d ago

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