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‘Atiqot 92 (2018)
ISBN 2948-040X
Statues from the Eastern Circus at Caesarea Maritima
(pp. 141–159)
Rivka Gersht
Keywords: Roman art, architecture, sculpture, iconography
Fragments of four statues were uncovered during the 2001–2004 excavations in the Eastern Circus at Caesarea. These were clearly part of the decoration scheme of the
spina
. Three of the fragments are of human figures—two belong to draped female figures—and the fourth is a fragment of an animal (a bull?). This article attempts to interpret each of the sculpted images within the environment of the circus. It appears that the Eastern Circus was affluently decorated, in accordance with the findings from other circuses throughout the Roman Empire.