Police in Jerusalem have seized a hoard of stolen antiquities in Jerusalem, including coins, incense burners and ceramics.Image credit: Israel Antiquities Authority
Posted on 01/04/2022 8:33:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Police in Jerusalem seized a hoard of stolen antiquities that date to a 1,900-year-old Jewish rebellion against the Romans. The cache had been dug up by tomb robbers from a tunnel complex.
The hoard included hundreds of coins, incense burners and a number of ceramics with decorations on them, including a jug that has a carving of a reclining figure holding a jug of wine. Researchers believe that during the Bar Kokhba revolt (A.D. 132-135), Jewish rebels captured the items from Roman soldiers and stored them in a tunnel complex where modern-day robbers found them, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement released on their Facebook page on Wednesday (Dec. 15).
During the Bar Kokhba revolt, Shimon Ben Kosva (also called Simon Bar-Kokhba or just Bar-Kokhba) led the Jews in a revolt against Roman rule. The rebels initially captured a substantial amount of territory. However, the Romans counterattacked and gradually wiped out the rebels and killed many civilians. The ancient writer Cassius Dio claimed that more than 500,000 Jewish men were killed in the revolts. Archaeologists have found numerous hideouts that the Jews used to hide goods or people from the Roman army.
Despite stealing the goods, the Jewish rebels may not have used many of the artifacts, because they had images that may have gone against Jewish religious beliefs...
Police officers found the artifacts after they stopped a car that was "driving in the wrong direction up a one-way street," the statement said. Inside the car, they found the artifacts, which researchers think the robbers stole during illegal excavations of a tunnel complex. While the artifacts were seized in the Musrara neighborhood of Jerusalem the precise location of the tunnel complex was not released.
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Police in Jerusalem have seized a hoard of stolen antiquities in Jerusalem, including coins, incense burners and ceramics.Image credit: Israel Antiquities Authority
de Jews ripped the Romans? hope they got change...
Very cool.
"You had ONE job!"
happened to me, DAMN GPS!!
Oh, they got change alright, they rendered unto the Caesars whatever the Romans required them to render from then on.
🤣
So,are they going to return it to Rome?🤔
The Copper Scroll ... 🎵 dunn dunn duh !
bkmk
Damn Romans. After that massacre they renamed Israel Palestine.
5.56mm
“Police officers found the artifacts after they stopped a car that was “driving in the wrong direction up a one-way street,”
Thank goodness for dumb crooks.
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They’re not tomb robbers, just undocumented archaeologists.
The Bar Kokhba revolt was how Judea and Samaria got renamed to Palestine. Once the rebellion was subdued, just to poke his thumb in the eye of the Israelites, the Roman Emperor Hadrian renamed the region to “Syria Palaestina,” in honor of the Hebrews’ hereditary enemy, the Philistines.
Which has to be one of history’s most enduring insults because the Israelis still to this day are plagued by that name change.
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