Archaeologists believe these coins were hidden on purpose in the hope of being recovered when the situation stabilized, the authority said in a statement. Israeli.
An “emergency” discovery
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The place where the discovery was made.
Mor Viezel, an IAA excavator, explained in a video that this type of treasure is known as “emergency treasure“, as people hid it in anticipation of a catastrophic event.
Many of the examples found were minted during the Gallus Revolt (occurred between 351 and 354 AD), a tumultuous period in which the Jews They rebelled against the rule of Flavius Claudius Constantius Gallus, ruler of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire.
The Gallus revolt It was one of several Jewish insurrections against Rome, during which the Romans “burned and destroyed” buildings in several cities, including Lod, Tiberias, and Sepphoris. This period of rebellion was part of a series of uprisings that Jews carried out over centuries against Jewish rule. Roman.
The first Jewish-Roman War (66-70 AD) culminated in the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and later, during the Bar Kochba Revolt (132-135 AD), the Romans crushed the Jewish resistance fighting for an independent state.
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More findings
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The treasure was dozens of coins.
In addition to the coins, “amazing stone and marble artifacts” with inscriptions in Greek, Hebrew and Latin. Among these objects, currently under more exhaustive study, one has been identified that mentions “a Jew belonging to a “priestly family”.
It is still not known with certainty how the Jews used the building before it was destroyed in the revolt. “Determining whether this impressive structure functioned as a synagogue, a study hall, a meeting place for the elders, or a combination of all of these functions is difficult,” explained Joshua Schwartz, professor and president of the IAA.
He treasure of coins discovered in Lod joins other recent finds, such as the 1,900-year-old coins found in the Judean Desert, which also belong to the Jewish revolts against Rome.
