Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - "Beth Gabra" ko "Beit Guvrin" ya maye gurbin Maresha a matsayin babban gari na yankin. Janar Vespasian na Roma ya ci shi a lokacin Yaƙin Yahudawa
(68 CE) kuma an lalata shi gaba ɗaya yayin tawayen Bar Kochba (132<unk>135 CE), an sake kafa shi a matsayin mulkin mallaka na Roman kuma a cikin shekara ta 200 ya sami taken birni da "ius italicum", a ƙarƙashin sabon sunan "Eleutheropolis", 'birnin 'yanci'. Tushen daga zamanin Byzantine sun ambaci Kiristocin da yahudawa da ke zaune a cikin birni.