[Verginius Rufus]

If any of it was still in Rome in A.D. 455, the Vandals took it to Carthage, and then it would have gone to Constantinople when the Byzantines conquered the Vandal kingdom under Justinian I. If any of it was still in Constantinople in 1204, it may have been taken by the Venetians or Franks on the Fourth Crusade and ended up somewhere in western Europe.

One of the contemporary narratives of the Fourth Crusade, by Robert of Clari, has a lot on the fantastic relics the Crusaders found when they looted Constantinople, but I don't remember if he says anything about treasure from the temple in Jerusalem. Of course if there was something purportedly from the temple of Jerusalem, it could have been a fake rather than the genuine item.

[Sherman Logan]

Rome was sacked in 410 by the Goths, 50 years before the Vandals got to it.

And that’s assuming no Emperor in a financial fix melted them down during the many civil wars fought for the throne.