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Thursday, October 17, 2024

More on that Jewish (?) gladiator in Pompeii

MORE ON MARTIAL MATERIAL CULTURE: A Jewish gladiator in Roman Pompeii? A helmet found in the ruins of the famous Roman city wiped out by a volcano eruption a few years after the destruction of Jerusalem depicts a palm tree, a symbol of Judea (Rossella Tercatin, Jerusalem Post).

I've already noted a more detailed article on this story here, but this one notes an additional underlying technical study. And in-between there has also been another study on the question of Jewish gladitors in the ancient Roman world.

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