Posted on 05/24/2020 3:08:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a rare coin minted about 1,900 years ago, when the Jewish people revolted against Roman occupation, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced (IAA) last week.
The bronze coin is so rare, that out of 22,000 coins found in archaeological excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem, just four are from the revolt, known as the Bar Kokhba revolt, Donald Tzvi Ariel, head of the Coin Department at the IAA, said in a statement.
A cluster of grapes and the inscription, "Year Two of the Freedom of Israel," appear on one side of the coin, and on other is a palm tree with the word "Jerusalem," making it the only coin on record from the revolt to bear the name "Jerusalem," the IAA said...
"It is possible that a Roman soldier from the Tenth Legion found the coin during one of the battles across the country and brought it to their camp in Jerusalem as a souvenir," archaeologists at the IAA said in the statement.
These coins usually feature the facade of the Temple, (the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in A.D. 70), as well as symbols associated with the temple, such as trumpets, a lyre, palm branches and amphorae (clay jugs), according to the Jewish Virtual Library.
Coins minted during the first two years of the revolt typically carry inscriptions saying "Redemption of Israel" and "Freedom of Israel," but that changed to a message of hope with the inscription "For the Freedom of Jerusalem" during the third year, when the revolt became more of a defensive guerrilla action, according to the Jewish Virtual Library.
In what was likely an act of defiance, these coins were minted on Roman coins, the IAA said.
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Romani eunt Domum?
Thanks Phinneous.
Here are the other GGG topics introduced since the previous Digest ping:
The fourtle comes after the turtle.
Conjugate the verb...
Where was Prince Judah ben-Hur?
"Romans, go home!"
Dang it. I was going from memory. It was “Romanes eunt Domus.” That’s what I get from trusting my memory.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
You should have played into it!
CENTURION: What’s this, then? ‘Romanes Eunt Domus’? ‘People called Romanes they go the house’?
BRIAN: It— it says, ‘Romans, go home’.
CENTURION: No, it doesn’t.
That is one of my all time favorite scenes from a comedy! Especially when he draws his sword with a “shwing”!
Sadly, it did not end well. Bar Kochba led them to disaster and 2,000 years of exile. And the Temple has never been rebuilt. It is debatable if the Jews had hung on through roman rule if the invading Muslims would have destroyed it. I think they would have, looking at their record of destruction in other occupied regions like Spain.
When the Patriarch Sophronius surrendered Jerusalem to the caliph Omar, the caliph didn't destroy the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, so my guess is that he would have spared the Temple if it had still been there, but there is no way to know.
Church of the
Holy Sepulchre,
What a fascinating
Relic,,,
I visited it 25years ago.
My understanding was that Hebrews of the time would hire others to mint their coins, (for example the temple tax coin) because of the prohibition of making a graven image.
Intricate design how did the make the die to make these things.
Yeah well I had to go to google for help so there’s that. You were really close.
Islam considers itself pure Judaism. It keeps a variation of halasha and of kosher. If there was a third temple (which there wasn’t), it would have not only been spared, but made into a mosque.
Bar kochkba was inevitable after the Kitos war where Jews massacred gentiles civilians in cyrene and Cyprus.
And that was inevitable from the 66 to 69 revolt
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