Posted on 06/06/2022 10:00:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Less lavish than amphitheaters for the civilian population, the military amphitheaters were used for training and entertainment by the troops.
Archaeologists excavating at the base of the Legio VI Ferrata Roman Legion near Megiddo (known as Legio) believe they have found evidence of the first military amphitheater to be identified in the Southern Levant.
While remains of over 230 Roman civilian amphitheaters have been found throughout what was the territory of the Roman Empire, fewer military amphitheaters have been excavated, and most of those are in the western regions of the empire...
The archaeological project at Legio is conducted under the auspices of the Jezreel Valley Regional Project. The amphitheater is one of several parts of the excavation of the base of the Roman Sixth Legion that was stationed here from the second to third centuries CE. The excavation of the amphitheater there is being supervised by Mark Letteney from the University of Southern California. The nearby Kibbutz Megiddo has also been providing strategic assistance.
The area had a vibrant community, and the Roman Legion’s military camp shared the area with a Jewish village as well as with a Roman-Byzantine city.
Several excavations teams have worked at the site over the years, starting in 1902 by Gottlieb Schumacher on behalf of the German Society for Oriental Research. Schumacher – after discovering two stone stairs, one stone seat and several other architectural elements – decided that a bowl-like depression in the wadi near Megiddo had been the site of an eastern-facing theater.
However, because of the more elliptical shape of the crater, the current excavating team believed what lay underneath was actually a military amphitheater where spectators sat all around a flat-surfaced arena in a seating area called the cavea.
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Fair enough. If you can find an alternative definition of Levant from a Bible dictionary or other authoritative source that says something different, please share it with us.
Well, no. Levant describes a region that includes Israel. It’s like Meso-America describes a region that includes Guatemala.
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I wonder what a Roman USO show was like? I bet it featured dancing girls in scant attire. “Gods and Generals” had a nice bit of a Confederate USO show with a comic Lincoln and singing of the Bonnie Blue Flag.
Megiddo, the site of Armageddon?
Yeah, Har Megiddo, “mountain of Megiddo”, the Battle of Megiddo.
https://www.biblewalks.com/armaggedon
1918:
https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-megiddo
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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