Caesaera Maritima, Israel. Founded in the years 22 - 10 or 9 B. C. by Herod the Great, close to the ruins of a small Phoenician naval station named Strato's Tower (Stratonos Pyrgos, Turris Strationis), which flourished during the 3d to 1st c. B. C. - Negev, Avraham 1923-2004 (1976)