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	<title>Comments on: The Temple of Jerusalem and the Colosseum</title>
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		<title>By: Nathan Lamm</title>
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		<description>Sorry for getting some details wrong...

If it was built with spoils from the Temple, I suppose that means that nothing much likely survives from the Temple. I recall Prof. Steven Fine pointing out that very little gold or other precious metal (apart from burial sites) survives from ancient times, as it&#039;s very easy to melt down and reshape, and they didn&#039;t care much for antiquities&#039; value as such back then- so no more Menorah, etc. (He also pointed out that while there are records of a scroll of Torah being brought with the spoils, scrolls don&#039;t survive except in very dry climates.)</description>
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<p>If it was built with spoils from the Temple, I suppose that means that nothing much likely survives from the Temple. I recall Prof. Steven Fine pointing out that very little gold or other precious metal (apart from burial sites) survives from ancient times, as it&#8217;s very easy to melt down and reshape, and they didn&#8217;t care much for antiquities&#8217; value as such back then- so no more Menorah, etc. (He also pointed out that while there are records of a scroll of Torah being brought with the spoils, scrolls don&#8217;t survive except in very dry climates.)</p>
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