An operation by police in the Beit Hanina neighbourhood in East Jerusalem has led to the discovery of several cartons in a car trunk containing the pavement bricks. The bricks were likely part of a public building such as a bath house, which has since been looted in modern times for sale in the illegal antiquities trade.This is not my area of expertise, but it looks to me as though the "Legio X Equestris" in the headline is an error. As the article itself indicates, the bricks were stamped by the Legio X Fretensis.The bricks date from roughly 2,000-years-ago and show the stamp of the Legio X Fretensis from when the legion built a military camp after Jerusalem’s destruction.
The Legio X Equestris was a legion founded by Julius Caesar which was disbanded in the 40s CE. The Legio X Fretensis was founded about twnety years after Equestris and was involved in putting down the Bar Kokhba Revolt in the 130s. For disambiguation, see here.
In 2014 I noted the discovery of a lapidary inscription set up by the Legio X Fretensis in Jerusalem.
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