Roman Coins Boast “Judaea Capta”
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Footnotes
1.
See Nahman Avigad, “Jerusalem in Flames—The Burnt House Captures a Moment in Time,” BAR 09:06; Steve Mason, “Will the Real Josephus Please Stand Up?” BAR 23:05; and Hillel Geva, “Searching for Roman Jerusalem,” BAR 23:06.
Endnotes
1.
A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem: 2001), p. 185.
2.
Josephus, The Jewish War 3.64 (Loeb ed.).
3.
The prototype for the coins issued by Vespasian and Titus was a silver denarius struck in 69 C.E. by Vitellius, who was emperor for only eight months, before his execution by Flavian forces on December 22, 69 C.E. David Hendin, Guide to Biblical Coins, 4th ed. (Nyack, NY: Amphora, 2001), pl. 25, no. 755.
4.
Josephus, The Jewish War 7.124, 148–155.