Jerusalem
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Owen Jarus’ interesting piece at Livescience is getting picked up all over the place … some excerpts: A lead curse tablet, dating back around 1,700 years and likely written by a magician, has been discovered in a collapsed Roman mansion in Jerusalem, archaeologists report. […] The text is written in Greek and, in it a…
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Israel Hayom has a very lengthy piece which provides further details of the claims being made by Benny Liss which we mentioned the other day … Here’s a lengthy excerpt from that lengthy piece: […] On Sunday, the main points of Liss’ theory were printed on the news pages of Israel Hayom. Since then, the…
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This one’s obviously in its very early stages, but we’ll mention it and see where it goes … tip o’ the pileus to Jim West (Have The Remains of Jews Killed by the Romans in Jerusalem in 70 a.d. Been Discovered?) who alerts us to Antonio Lombatti’s post (Scheletri del massacro del Monte del Tempio?)…
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ante diem xii kalendas junias Agonalia — the rex sacrificulus would offer a ram to various deities rites in honour of Vediovis 429 B.C. — birth of Plato (by one reckoning) 70 A.D. — Roman forces break through Jerusalem’s middle wall 194 A.D.(?) — Septimius Severus acclaimed as Imperator 293 A.D. (?) — elevation of Galerius to the rank…
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