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The great king loved small: Herod grew bonsai trees in his palace in Jericho

In the 1970s, a magnificent tree garden was discovered in Herod's Palace in the Judean Desert.

Samples from the pots taken from him were lost in the warehouses, but have now been found and revealed that the king grew dwarf trees of cypress, olive, pine and also of Lebanese cedar.

"It was a fashion in its infancy," says the researcher

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Ziv Reinstein

Monday, 08 February 2021, 11:03

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A new discovery in the winter palace of King Herod third Jericho, indicates that Herod (4-73 BC), was not only the great builders of Jewish history, but also finding out landscaping of the same period last cultivated luxury garden with dwarf trees.

The excavations were directed instead to By the late Prof. Ehud Netzer, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, an inner garden surrounded by pillars was discovered in this palace, which has no equal in the Roman world in terms of uniqueness and splendor. 11 columns across 7 rows)

These potted soil samples were taken during the excavation by Prof. Catherine Gleyson of Cornell University, but they were lost in warehouses for nearly four decades. Of Dr. Daphne Langout.

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A flowerpot buried in the ground, photographed in the 1970s during the excavation at the Winter Palace in Jericho (Photo: PR, Katherine Gleyson)

Fashion in its infancy in the luxury horticulture of the Roman world.

Proposal to restore Herod's dwarf potted garden (Photo: PR, Yaniv Korman)

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The tree that symbolized splendor and prestige in the ancient world

Dr. Langot is lonely from the potting soil and fossilized pollen grains of plants, which show that in these pots Herod chose to grow dwarf trees and shrubs such as cypress, olive, plane, noble, palm, myrtle, pine and non-wild wood of the country - Lebanon cedar symbolized luxury and prestige in the ancient world.

"This is the first archaeological evidence of the existence of a garden dwarf trees," says Dr. langot.

"It seems that growing dwarf trees was an early fashion in the luxury gardens of the ancient Roman world, as reflected in texts and murals of the period. King Herod seems to have been influenced by the luxury fashions prevalent in the Western Roman world not only in architecture and craftsmanship."

Herod challenged nature.

Potted plants unearthed in the archeological excavation at Herod's Palace (Photo: PR, M. Suchowolski, Israel Museum, Jerusalem)

The king who challenged nature

The findings of the study suggest a dwarf tree garden in a challenging ecology such as Jericho and the importation of cedar trees, suggest that Herod actually challenged nature.

The garden conveys a message to the high-ranking guests who visited it that the king has the ability to control not only his subjects but also nature.

A grain of Lebanese cedar that does not grow in Eretz Israel that was found in the excavation (Photo: PR, R. Shaddi)

The study was co-authored with Prof. Gleason and was recently published in the journal Strata.

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