Language:
English
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Numismatic Research
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (2006) 25-35
Keywords:
Coins, Ancient
;
Weights and measures, Ancient
;
Seals (Numismatics)
;
Gaza Strip Antiquities
Abstract:
The author attributes three previously unknown lead coins dated SE 235 (78/7 BCE) to the city of Gaza. This new dated coinage poses a serious problem for the Josephan account of the city’s destruction at the hands of Alexander Jannaeus in c. 95/4 BCE, which indicates that Gaza lay in ruins until it was restored by Gabinius in 57 BCE. It is suggested that the damage to Gaza may have been exaggerated by Josephus and that the Gazans probably still survived as a corporate entity in some manner following the disastrous war with Jannaeus.
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