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Photo: Shlomi Amami, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Israeli archaeologists have discovered a swimming pool in which a legion of Roman soldiers bathed after sacking Jerusalem and expelling the Jews from their city.
Featuring a number of plastered bathtubs and a pipe on its side used to fill it with water, the pool was part of a larger complex which included bathhouses and more swimming pools.Hundreds of terra cotta roof tiles, found on a white industrial mosaic floor, indicate that the pool was a covered structure.
The tiles bore the mark “LEG X FR,” for Tenth Legion “Fretensis,” and surprisingly, the paw prints of a dog that probably belonged to one of the soldiers.
“The print could have happened accidentally or have been intended as a joke,” excavation director Ofer Sion said in a statement.
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