page_title: Tel Michal
section_title: Roman period
hierarchical_section_title: Tel Michal / History / Roman period
caption_attribution_description: English: Tel Michal, Herzliya, Israel
context_page_description: Tel Michal is an archaeological site on Israel's central Mediterranean coast, near the modern city of Herzliya, about 6.5 kilometres north of the Yarkon River estuary and 4 kilometres south of Arsuf-Appolonia. Excavations have yielded remains from the Middle Bronze Age to the Early Arab period.
context_section_description: A large fortress, 31 by 38 meters, once again stood at the site during the Roman period. Erected on foundations of coarse eolianite, the superstructure was built of dressed eolianite stones laid in headers. The entrance to the fortress stood on its northern side, while in the center of its inner courtyard stood a tower which may have served as a lighthouse at night. Coins recovered at the site come from the reign of prefects Marcus Ambibulus, Valerius Gratus, Pontius Pilate and King Agrippa I, dating the fortress to 10 – 50 CE. The only fortress of its kind found along Israel's Mediterranean coast,
  it served as a base and anchorage for the Roman army. Its remains are the most prominent feature of present-day Tel Michal.
caption: View south from Tel Michal, showing Tel Aviv
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