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CHAPTER XV
THE JEWS IN PHRYGIA
§ 1. The Jews in Apameia p. 667. § 2. The Legend of the Flood in Apameia
p. 669. § 3. The Jews in Akmonia p. 673. § 4. Fate of the Phrygian Jews
p. 674.
§ 1. The Jews in Apameia. Cicero1 mentions that Flaccus, pro-
praetor of Asia in 62 B.C., would not allow the contributions, which
were regularly sent to Jerusalem by the Jews, to go out of Asia, and
seized the money that was collected for the purpose. At Apameia nearly
100 pounds weight of gold was taken and weighed before the praetor,
at Laodiceia 20 pounds weight, an unknown amount at Adramyttion,
and a little at Pergamos. But it is an error to state, as has frequently
been done, that the 100 pounds had been contributed by the Jews of
Apameia. It is clear that the sums seized had been brought to these
great centres for export, and represented the contributions of large
districts2. Hence Cicero's statement proves only that there was a
large Jewish population in Phrygia; and this is known from some
other sources. But we may safely conclude that Apameia was one of
their chief centres, for it united all the conditions favourable to their
commercial and financial genius. Further, comparing the amount at
Apameia and at Laodiceia, we infer that the Jews were far more
numerous in Apameia and the cities connected with it than they were
in the Laodicean group ; and the evidence of inscr. fully confirms
this. Akmonia, Sebaste, Eumeneia, Apameia, Dokimion, Iconium3, are
6
1 Pro Flaceo 68: Th. Reinach Textes 2 dr. annually). M. Babelon Mel.
Eelatifs au Judaisme p. 237. Nimiism. I p. 169 infers that la popula-
2 M. Th. Reinach Monn. Junes pp. 72 f Hon d'Apamee a Vepogue Bomaine, itait
note, calculates that this weight of gold Juive en grande partie. It would be
represents about 50,000 half-shekels, safer to say that Apameia was the
which he considers must either have centre of a district in which a very
been the sum of several years' tax, or large Jewish population dwelt.
an extraordinary contribution; but in 3 CIGr 9270 at Iconium is clearly
his Textes p. 240 he calculates that it Jewish-Christian. Iconium was not in
is over 75,000 drachmae (each Jew paid the Apamean district.
THE JEWS IN PHRYGIA
§ 1. The Jews in Apameia p. 667. § 2. The Legend of the Flood in Apameia
p. 669. § 3. The Jews in Akmonia p. 673. § 4. Fate of the Phrygian Jews
p. 674.
§ 1. The Jews in Apameia. Cicero1 mentions that Flaccus, pro-
praetor of Asia in 62 B.C., would not allow the contributions, which
were regularly sent to Jerusalem by the Jews, to go out of Asia, and
seized the money that was collected for the purpose. At Apameia nearly
100 pounds weight of gold was taken and weighed before the praetor,
at Laodiceia 20 pounds weight, an unknown amount at Adramyttion,
and a little at Pergamos. But it is an error to state, as has frequently
been done, that the 100 pounds had been contributed by the Jews of
Apameia. It is clear that the sums seized had been brought to these
great centres for export, and represented the contributions of large
districts2. Hence Cicero's statement proves only that there was a
large Jewish population in Phrygia; and this is known from some
other sources. But we may safely conclude that Apameia was one of
their chief centres, for it united all the conditions favourable to their
commercial and financial genius. Further, comparing the amount at
Apameia and at Laodiceia, we infer that the Jews were far more
numerous in Apameia and the cities connected with it than they were
in the Laodicean group ; and the evidence of inscr. fully confirms
this. Akmonia, Sebaste, Eumeneia, Apameia, Dokimion, Iconium3, are
6
1 Pro Flaceo 68: Th. Reinach Textes 2 dr. annually). M. Babelon Mel.
Eelatifs au Judaisme p. 237. Nimiism. I p. 169 infers that la popula-
2 M. Th. Reinach Monn. Junes pp. 72 f Hon d'Apamee a Vepogue Bomaine, itait
note, calculates that this weight of gold Juive en grande partie. It would be
represents about 50,000 half-shekels, safer to say that Apameia was the
which he considers must either have centre of a district in which a very
been the sum of several years' tax, or large Jewish population dwelt.
an extraordinary contribution; but in 3 CIGr 9270 at Iconium is clearly
his Textes p. 240 he calculates that it Jewish-Christian. Iconium was not in
is over 75,000 drachmae (each Jew paid the Apamean district.