HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA A poor widow also came

A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents

particularly under Emperor Diocletian (280-300)

000 square kilometers

referred to as Tell el-Yahudiyeh Ware

HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA A poor widow also cameDuring the rule of John Hyrcanus II (63 40 BCE), an Idumaean convert to Judaism Antipater was appointed by Julius Caesar as the de facto administrator of Judaea. Idumaeans were descendants of Esau, living in Edom, a country bordering Judaea in what is now southwest Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. Antipater chose his younger son, Herod, who was still only a boy, as governor of Galilee. When the last Hasmonean king, Antigonus