After the First Jewish Revolt, Roman emperor Hadrian mocks the Jewish people by erecting a marble statue of a pig.

Some historians came to believe that the 10th Fretensis adopted the wild boar as its emblem after the First Jewish Revolt because the image of a pig was raised by Hadrian at Jerusalem, where the legion was based. But Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea during the time of Constantine the Great, pointed out that Hadrian placed a marble idol of a domestic pig, not a boar, over Jerusalem’s Bethlehem gate, for the purpose of ‘signifying the subjugation of the Jews to Roman authority’. The Jewish faith, of course, both forbade the eating of the meat of the pig and the display at Jerusalem, their holy city, of graven images of any kind. So, this use of the pig emblem over the city gate was contrived by Hadrian as a double insult to the Jews.

Source:

Dando-Collins, Stephen. “Part II: The Legions – 10th Fretensis Legion.” Legions of Rome: The Definitive History of Every Imperial Roman Legion. Thomas Dunne Books, 2012. 160. Print.

Original Source Listed:

Eus., Chron., HY 20.

Further Reading:

First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), sometimes called the Great Revolt (Hebrew: המרד הגדול‎ ha-Mered Ha-Gadol)

Latin: Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus

Eusebius of Caesarea / Greek: Εὐσέβιος τῆς Καισαρείας, Eusébios tés Kaisareías; ad 260 – 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphili (from the Greek: Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμϕίλου)

Constantine the Great / Latin: Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus / Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ Μέγας / also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine, in the Orthodox Church as Saint Constantine the Great, Equal-to-the-Apostles

After the First Jewish Revolt, Roman emperor Hadrian mocks the Jewish people by erecting a marble statue of a pig.

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