Ironclad Legion Ruled Region From Ancient Galillee Base
Posted on 07/05/2013 10:04:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Israeli archaeologists have found ruins they believe are the site of one of the two Roman legions based in the country between 120 and 300 C.E.
Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Yotam Tepper had long suspected that the site in the Galilee was the base of the Legio Sexta Ferrata, the 6th Roman Legion, also known as the Ironclad Legion. The other legion in the country was the 10th, based in Jerusalem.
Over the past week, an expedition led by Tepper and archaeologist Matthew Adams found the base of a battery or wall, a moat surrounding the camp, water pipes, a covered sewage channel, coins and tiles. The legion's symbol adorned a broken shingle...
Excavations and surveys over the years found the locations of the Jewish village Othnai in the Megiddo Prison compound, and the Roman-Byzantine city of Maximianopolis near Kibbutz Megiddo. To find the legion camp, Tepper conducted field surveys and relied on surveys from the past...
Tepper and Adams analyzed an enhanced high-resolution satellite photo and could clearly make out the square marking the camp's boundaries; each side was around 250 meters long. A ground-penetrating radar scan provided further evidence. Student volunteers from the United States, Europe and Australia helped out..
According to Tepper, the chapel offered evidence of an ancient Christian community whose members included Roman officers. This was the period before Christianity was recognized as a religion, and well before it became Rome’s official religion. The chapel was apparently abandoned at the end of the third century.
Tepper believes the legion camp was also abandoned around that time. “You can see that the camp wasn't destroyed but was abandoned in an orderly way," he says. "From here they moved east across the Jordan River.”
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Ironclad Legion Ruled Region From Ancient Galillee Base
Pardon my ignorance but is “C.E.” B.C. or A.D.?
**Pardon my ignorance but is “C.E.” B.C. or A.D.?***
I call it Christ Entered (CE) or Before Christ entered (BCE).
“Common Era” is “Anno Domine.”
“BCE” is “Before Common Era.”
A.D.
It stands for “Common Era” That would be A.D...
They found our base. Big deal. We abandoned that spit hole years ago.....
I believe that means Common Era or A.D. In order to be politically correct we can no longer define eras as BC or AD which would be a direct reference to Christ as historically presented.
I call it Christ Entered (CE) or Before Christ entered (BCE).
Way to go!
All your Roman Legion base are belong to us. You have no chance, make your time!
Thanks all. I wasn’t being sarcastic. I just never have got a handle on this political correctness stuff.
That’s an amazing find. Would love to be able to tour Israel for weeks.
Hey! Isn’t that an ancient Philistine Liberation Organization (PLO) short range projectile used by the HAMAS legion? :)launched at the Israelites?
Actually, Christian Era, and Before Christian Era are recognized.
Sweet! I wuz hoping sum 1 would say that tonight.
Watching “Team America: World Police”.
Still funny as hell.
The guy in blue is saying, “If we glue it back together no will ever notice”.
Silly me, I thought it was Christian Era.
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