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To: onedoug
And how about giving the Temple stuff depicted on the Arch Of Titus back to the Jews.

Please, not this nonsense again.

Like any of that stuff has been anywhere in Rome for any of the past 1500 years.

76 posted on 05/12/2014 11:00:53 AM PDT by Campion
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To: Campion

Perhaps they should chisel off the reliefs and send those back to Jerusalem?


83 posted on 05/12/2014 11:04:40 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Campion
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.

114 posted on 05/12/2014 12:24:10 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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