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Banias

Caesarea Philippi
Israel200 BCE700 CEHellenistic — Byzantine33.25, 35.70
About the site

Known in antiquity as Panium, this site was a major center for the worship of Pan and later a Roman city. It is the location where Jesus asked his disciples, 'Who do you say I am?'

Principal findings
  • iThe Nymphaeum and cave of Pan
  • iiTemple of Augustus built by Herod the Great
  • iiiRoman theater and city walls
  • ivEarly Christian church foundations

Excavators — Michael Aviam, Gideon Avni