Antiquity
Government of Pontius Pilate
26-36·Jérusalem
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imperial standards introduced into the city at night, then bloody repression of the protest against the use of the Temple treasury for the aqueduct
Pontius Pilate had the emperor's standards introduced into Jerusalem by night, which his predecessors had kept outside the walls out of respect for the prohibition on images. A crowd that had come down to Caesarea remained prostrate before the praetorium for five days and offered their necks to the soldiers rather than yield; the prefect backed down.
He then used the Temple's sacred treasury to construct an aqueduct. The protest was suppressed by soldiers in civilian dress mingled among the crowd and armed with clubs, and there were deaths in the crush as well as from the blows. Philo of Alexandria describes a government of plunder, summary executions, and unrelenting cruelty.
- Period :
- Antiquity
- Type :
- Military repression
- Region :
- Land of Israel
- Country :
- Terre d'Israël
Flavius Josèphe, Guerre des Juifs ; Philon d'Alexandrie, Legatio ad Caium.