Posted 03/03/2021 5:14 pm
Wow! That was quick Bob L. I thought it was Greek- well looking at all the bumps and giggles looks like you might have hit it! Akko-Ptolemais or todays Acre Israel and then Roman Phoenicia.
During the rule of the emperor Claudius there was a building drive in Ptolemais and veterans of the legions settled here. The city was a center of Romanization in the region, but most of the population was made of local Phoenicians and Jews and as a consequence after the Hadrian times the descendants of the initial Roman colonists were no more speaking Latin and were fully assimilated in less than two centuries however the local society's customs were Roman.
Doing a quick check it looks like there are not a lot of these surviving so this one must be a bit rare.
During the rule of the emperor Claudius there was a building drive in Ptolemais and veterans of the legions settled here. The city was a center of Romanization in the region, but most of the population was made of local Phoenicians and Jews and as a consequence after the Hadrian times the descendants of the initial Roman colonists were no more speaking Latin and were fully assimilated in less than two centuries however the local society's customs were Roman.
Doing a quick check it looks like there are not a lot of these surviving so this one must be a bit rare.
