6.3.11 Spoils of the Temple: After a Relief from the Arch of Titus, Rome

Description

This source is a model of a stone relief carving on the inside of the Arch of Titus in Rome. It shows Romans and Jewish captives marching in a triumph held in Rome for Titus after he defeated the Jewish rebels and destroyed the Second Temple. The men are carrying a menorah and a table symbolizing the plunder that the Romans took from the temple.