c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.340

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.340

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.340

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

340He also magnificently rebuilt the royal palace that had been at Jericho, and he diverted half the water with which the village of Neara used to be watered, and drew off that water into the plain, to water those palm trees which he had there planted: he also built a village, and put his own name upon it, and called it Archelais.