hippos (sussita) excavations Project

The ancient city of Hippos (Sussita) of the Decapolis is located on a hill, 2 km. east of the Sea of Galilee. It is one of the most exciting ancient cities of the Holy Land, continuously excavated by our team for over 20 years.

The project operates under the auspices of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa and is affiliated with the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology and ASOR.

• M. Eisenberg, The Basilica of Hippos of the Decapolis and a Corpus of the Regional Basilicae, In A. Dell’Acqua and O. Peleg-Barkat (eds), The Basilica in Roman Palestine, Adoption and Adaptation Processes, in Light of Comparanda in Italy and North Africa, Edizioni Quasar, Italy, 2021: 153–184.

• M. Eisenberg and A. Kowalewska, Funerary podia of Hippos of the Decapolis and the phenomenon in the Roman world, Journal of Roman Archaeology 2021.

• A. Pažout and M. Eisenberg, The Territory of Hippos: Its Settlement Dynamics and Development from the Hellenistic to the Late Roman Period as Seen through Spatial Analytical Methods, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38, 2021: 1–15.

• A. Kowalewska and M. Eisenberg, Mason’s Marks of Antiochia Hippos and Roman Syria-Palaestina, In M.S. Vinci and A. Ottati (eds), From the Quarry to the Monument. The Process behind the Process: Design and Organization of the Work in Ancient Architecture, Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World 26., Propylaeum, Heidelberg 2021: 57–67