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Samaria was renamed Sebastos, which is the Greek name (used in the East) for the Latin Augustus (the majestic); Stratonos Pyrgos was renamed Caesarea (Maritima); and a temple dedicated to Augustus at Banias, where Philip later founded a city, was renamed Caesarea Banias, also known as Caesarea Philippi.
Rosalie David, Discovering Ancient Egypt (London: Facts on File, 1993), p. 45; George A. Reisner, The Early Dynastic Cemeteries of Naga-Ed-Der part 1 (Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1908), pp. vii–viii; H.S. Smith, “Nubia,” in Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 1882–1982, ed. T.G.H. James (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), p. 124; Bruce G. Trigger, A History of Archaeological Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 197; Wilson, Signs and Wonders, pp. 145–149.
See Robert M. Little, “George Andrew Reisner and His Contemporaries,” in The Archaeology of Jordan and Other Studies, Lawrence T. Geraty and Larry G. Herr, eds. (Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 1986), p. 184; “Reisner, George Andrew,” in Who’s Who in America, vol. 22 (Chicago: A.N. Marquis Company, 1942), p. 1830; and John Wilson, Signs and Wonders Upon Pharaoh: A History of American Egyptology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), pp. 144–145.
