A Milestone of A.D. 69 from Judaea: The Elder Trajan and Vespasian

Isaac, Benjamín; Roll, Israel

doi:10.2307/299776

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“…38 Stern 1974-84: 363-4, n. 3. 39 Isaac andRoll 1979a;1979b;Roll 1982a. In contrast, Shatzman (1983: 323-9) proposed two theories by which to double the legionary presence in Judea.…”

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Rome: An Empire of Many Nations

2022

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The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's 'success' in governance than to illuminate the variety of individual experience in its own terms. The chapters here, reflecting a wide spectrum of professional expertise, range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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“…38 Stern 1974-84: 363-4, n. 3. 39 Isaac andRoll 1979a;1979b;Roll 1982a. In contrast, Shatzman (1983: 323-9) proposed two theories by which to double the legionary presence in Judea.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…During this period, throughout the province, the Romans built and maintained sophisticated road systems, which also included way stations, observation points, forts, and the like (e.g. Isaac and Roll 1976; Roll 1998).…”

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“…The labor for executing such projects, which included quarrying, moving masses of stone, building, and similar tasks, was performed either by soldiers or by captives of war (Isaac and Roll 1976;Wiedemann 1988: 165, 177). By the time the Romans had arrived in the Judean Desert (the area in which the last battles of both revolts were fought), the imperial army had a large pool of war captives to effect necessary works in the region (Josephus Flavius, The Wars of the Jews, Book 6, Chapter 9, paragraph 2).…”

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Is Somebody Watching You? Ancient Surveillance Systems in the Southern Judean Desert

Yekutieli¹

2007

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There is no need for arms, physical violence, material constraints. Just a gaze. An inspecting gaze, a gaze which each individual under its weight will end by interiorising to the point that he is his own overseer, each individual thus exercising this surveillance over, and against, himself. A superb formula: power exercised continuously and for what turns out to be a minimal cost. AbstractThe Panoptic model of surveillance, which enables a small number of observers to control large numbers of people, is usually considered a modern (18th century AD) invention and a conceptual cornerstone of modern surveillance and disciplinary systems. On the basis of two case studies encountered in a survey near the southwestern edge of the Dead Sea, this study suggests that the concept of surveillance is much older. The first case deals with a quarry from the Roman period, and the second concentrates on an ascent from the Early Bronze Age II-III periods (3000-2400 BC).

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“…[4] The first Latin inscriptions documented in the region of Roman Palestine occur on milestones: the earliest example of AD 56 is from Wadi Ghadir (Goodchild, 1949 120). Another from Afula in Judaea was established in AD 69 (Isaac & Roll, 1976).…”

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