![]() Hoff just completed his 12th season leading excavation at the site. Michael Hoff (third from left) with Turkish students who found a Medusa's head at the Antiochia ad Cragum archaeological site in Turkey during the 2015 dig season. So even these buildings can’t serve the same function permanently.” “Like anything, no building lasts forever. “The bath, we now know, dates to the second half of the first century A.D., so it was among one of the earliest public buildings constructed after the site was founded,” Hoff said. Hoff, who has directed the excavation since 2005, said it’s not surprising to find that the area had been repurposed - from a bath house to a light industrial center - over time. The city was founded by Antiochus IV of Commagene, a client-king of Rome, in the middle of the 1st century. The discovery along with a previously uncovered glass manufacturing workshop - all found in the bath house area of the city - indicate the area served light industrial needs during the late Roman Empire. Led by Michael Hoff, professor of art history, the summer 2017 dig season at the Antiochia at Cragum excavated three kilns, doubling the number of kilns found at the site. An ongoing, Nebraska-led archaeological dig in has continued to define the history of an ancient city on the southern coast of Turkey. ![]()
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