In this article we present an attempt to reconstruct the agricultural, economic, and administrative territory of the city of Hippos of the Decapolis from the Hellenistic to the Late Roman periods. The aim was to test models of development of territories proposed for Greek poleis and to apply approaches relating the site catchment and central place theory to the study of territoriality of Hellenistic and Roman cities in the southern Levant. The research methodology encompasses spatial analyses of the settlement patterns, using computation of travel times, average neighbour analysis and kernel density analysis, applied to archaeological heritage data. The archaeological data and geo-spatial analyses are supplemented with historical–geographical sources and new archaeological data and are incorporated into the local and regional context.

在本文中，我们试图重建从希腊化时期到罗马晚期的低加波利斯河马城的农业、经济和行政领土。目的是测试为希腊极地提议的领土发展模型并将与场地集水区和中心地理论相关的方法应用于黎凡特南部希腊化和罗马城市的领土研究。研究方法包括聚落模式的空间分析，使用旅行时间计算、平均邻域分析和核密度分析，应用于考古遗产数据。考古数据和地理空间分析补充了历史地理资源和新的考古数据，并纳入当地和区域背景。