Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period
Angaben zur Quelle:
51,4-5 (2020) 571-582
Keywords:
Seals (Numismatics)
;
Eretz Israel Antiquities, Roman
;
Eretz Israel Politics and government To 600
;
Judea (Region) (Israel) Politics and government
;
Beit Natif (Israel)
Abstract:
A clay seal from the collection of the late professor Dan Barag bears an inscription The Boule of Baitolethepha. The village of Baitolethepha (Beit-Nattif/Pella) was the administrative center of a Toparchy in Judea. This seal seems to prove that central toparchy villages, at least in Roman period Judea, had local councils called boulai and that this type of institution was not exclusive to poleis.
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