Bibliography
| Title: The camp of the Tenth Legion in Jerusalem; an archaeological reconsideration Secondary Title: IEJ Volume: 34 Pages: 239-254 Type: Journal Article Year: 1984 Abstract: "Après la destruction de Jérusalem, le camp de la xe légion a été installé sur la colline ouest comme l'attestent archéologie, épigraphie, et le témoignage de Josèphe. Bell Jud. VII, 1-2. D'abord dans les environs des trois tours hérodiennes, puis détachées à plusieurs endroits stratégiques et variables, il n'y avait pas un camp délimité et organisé en un seul lieu, mais des bases mobiles en fonct8on des circonstances".
"The main evidence for the presence of a Roman legionary camp in Jerusalem after the destruction of the city in A.D. 70 is Josephus' testimony in War 7:1-2, the camp was situated on the western hill where the Upper City ad been located. The plan of a typical permanent Roman military camp has been employed by various scholars to reconstruct it. But the archaeological data are negative fort the accepted reconstruction; they indicate that the entire hill was sporadically inhabited during the Roman period with no erection of a new defensive wall or reuse of the "first wall". After A.D. 70 only a small detachment, commanded by a h high-ranking officer, encamped in the ruined Upper City. Probably no structure remained for the tenth legion to renovate except that the three Herodian towers, which had been spared by Titus, provided security and emergency shelter in proximity to the legion's headquarters. Apparently the legionary detachment encamped in temporary structures of which nothing survives. Because the area was elevated, the camp was not fortified, Even after the founding of Aelia Capitolina in A.D. 132, the main part of the army continued to camp in temporary structures. As a result of the Bar Kokhba revolt, the tenth legion's headquarters were transferred to Caesarea Maritima, and at the end of the 3rd century the legion itself was trasferred to Aila (Eilat)". - E.G.B. Keywords: Archaeology, topography, local and regional history |