Vindolanda shrine (July 2009)

[M. Demetrius]

I'd have thought monotheists would do such a thing, whereas the ancients at that time were polytheists mostly, and seem to have respected other people's gods, if not adopt and

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem a copy of the Hebrew Scriptures was paraded in Vespasian's
triumph in Rome

Can't have it both ways, can we? I think the assumed degree of "religious tolerance" of the ancient polytheists is frequently overstated. :wink: