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Channel: The Holy Land, by Zahi Shaked · 2012 · Travel & Events

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Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera 
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מורה דרך מדריך תיירים ישראל tour guide in Israel
Beit Shean park seems a bit overwhelming at first glance and in the summer it can be 
very hot as the city lies in the low-lying valley like a frying pan. 
The first site along the route is the huge theatre, built around 200 CE. Although the middle tier has been robbed, and the upper tier has blown off altogether, the preservation is impressive. There used to be seats for 7000 spectators. A stairway on the east side gave access to the theatre for VIPs, and besides that there are 8 other entrances for the common folk. The theatre stayed in use until the Byzantine era. At the foot of the VIP stairs are a Roman temple and a fountain house. 
At the back of the theatre, across the street, lie the remains of the biggest Byzantine bath in Israel. They show that exercise madness is from all times: there was a huge colonnaded gym which looked like a temple with swimming pools and heated halls to extract sweat from the body on three sides. The northern rooms were unheated and used for socialising. A monumental entrance leads out to the street.
At the northeast corner of the bathhouse there used to be a small Roman tfor musical perfo. However a later Byzantine building is partly built on top of it, and thereby destroyed it. The Byzantine construction is built in a semicircle consisting of an open market with separate rooms (for shops probably), each of which contains a mosaic. One of the rooms holds a marvellous mosaic of Tyche, the Roman goddess of good fortune. Her crown is a walled city (Scythopolis) and in her hand she holds the horn of plenty, full to the brim with riches. In some of the other rooms archaeologists were busy working during our visit. They are not digging for deeper layers, but restoring the mosaics in its original appearance. In the future there should more to see here.
Outside we step onto the main street of the city. It is paved with basalt slabs, in the middle, flagstones cover a drain. On both sides of the street are sidewalks. Along the western side of the street were shops. Leading to the Tel, the street winded along the whole Tel (this cannot be seen today). 
At the Tel, stairs led up to the temple of Zeus, which stood at the summit. The remains at the corner of the street are of the temple of Dionysos, the city's patron god. It had four columns of 10 meter high which supported a triangular stone. Inside steps lead up to the temple itself which rests on a podium. 
Next to the temple of Dionysos was a nymphaeum, a decorative fountain. The structure is made from basalt lined with limestone. 
Next to it along the street leading eastward is a large public building which was used in Roman times as a sort of roofed forum to do the business of the city. In Byzantine times it was renovated and used as a large market or in the Greek word 'agora'. On the sides were covered shops. On one side lies a beautiful mosaic of a lion

ראשיתה של בית שאן לפני כ 7000 שנה!!! בתל נחשפו כעשרים שכבות יישוב, החל מן התקופה הניאוליתית (האלף החמישי לפנה"ס) ועד לימי הביניים, וחלקים קטנים מהם ניתן לראות גם כיום, כפי שעוד נחזור וניראה. ואולם -- עיקר עוצמתה ויופיה של בית שאן הם השרידים מן התקופות הרומית והביזנטית (החל במאה הראשונה לספ , ועד שנת 749 -- עת רעידת אדמה אדירה גרמה לחורבנה המחלט). העיר בה אנו עומדים לבקר עברה תהפוכות ושינויים לאורך הזמן, החל בתקופה הרומית עת יושבה ע"י תושבים פגנים, ועבור אל התקופה הביזנטית, עת הוכרזה הנצרות כדת הרשמית של רומא, והעיר חוותה פריחה עצומה, אוכלוסייתה היגיעה לכדי 30 עד 40 אלף איש, על הגבעות סביבה הוקמו כנסיות רבות, ורק אחרי הכיבוש הערבי (638 לספ ) החלה העיר שוקעת, עד חורבנה הסופי ברעידת האדמה. בתקופה הרומית ניקראה העיר "סקיתופוליס".

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