From the Balkans - Iron Wood Working Solid Chisel Trophy taken or captured by Roman Auxiliaries during the Galilee Campaign of the First Jewish Rebellion (Votive of Vespasian/Titus, Jesus Christ, Early Christian Figures/Themes, Roman Deities, and Greco Sarmatian Deities)

ANNOUCEMENT: There has been a breakthrough with info/art on another Roman Army votive artifact of the Galilean Campaign of the First Jewish Rebellion. The info/art on the artifact concerns; Vespasian/Titus, two of the legions of that campaign, the Jewish rebels, the Judeo-Christians, and apparently the Roman nautical/foot expedition to North America of 71 AD (West Asia), as well a mounted/foot expedition to East (Asia) - More info to follow soon!

The study and photography of the art/inscriptions on and near the chisel's tip has turned out to be a bit more demanding then I had thought it would be, some pictures are posted and with many more to follow to completion, then the info - Please return on April 21st, 2014, or periodically. Current info: I have known about what was on this artifact for years, but have refrained from tackling it as a research project as I felt its immense importance deserved single focus. After observing the Roman concrete paint (paint mixed with concrete and resins) on the iron blade fragment of the First Jewish Rebellion that is on WV Artifact 2 (seen in Photo series 10), and the Roman concrete paint on this iron artifact, I decided to proceed with some of my research. My findings with other Roman Army trophy/votive artifacts of the First Jewish Rebellion show that any kind of concrete used in this way by the Romans had been a symbol of conquest and fettering. With that said, I will be focusing only on the art/inscriptions on three sides towards the tip of the chisel and then the head of the chisel. This only represents preliminary findings, as a completed research project it could take many months or even up to a year. This votive contains a wealth of information about the Roman perception of Jesus and the Christians circa 71 to 75 AD, as well as certain Greco Sarmatian beliefs. There are many images/inscriptions of Jesus on the chisel, on the chisel's head there are art/inscriptions of Vespasian absorbing the mystery of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, as a Roman messianic figure, as well as the bringing in of the Age of Pisces. Near and on the chisel's tip there is a syncretistic fusion of the birth and passion of Jesus, the Bacchic mysteries (associated with the east), the Ephesian Artemis (but also in connection with Cybele and Attis), and perthaps some type of early mysteries of Mithra. It suggests that Tertullian's claim that Tiberius had petitioned the Roman Senate in 36 AD to declare Jesus a divinity had been correct, there are even indications that Tiberius had been baptized a Christian, or in a mystery cult that was his version of Christianity. Concerning the connection to Bacchus (Gr: Dionysus) the well known "Alexamenos Graffito" discovered on a wall on the Palatine Hill in Rome (now in the Palatine Antiquarium Museum)comes to mind. There are also indications that Tiberius and, or his experts believed that after the resurrection that Jesus went to a land in the West. This brings to mind not only the legend of Joseph of Arimathea, but also the claim by Joseph Smith (founder of the Mormons) that Jesus had appeared in North America, historically this "may" have been from a knowledge of Christianity from the archeological/religious experts with the Roman expedition of 71 AD, or perhaps something else that hsd been earlier that is still unknown (or is unverified). According to research with other artifacts the Romans also saw a connection between some of the rituals/mysteries of the Christians and the Sarmatians as well as other peoples of Scythic origin, which may be at least one of the reasons why Vespasian brought Sarmatian auxiliaries from the Fleet Pontica (Marines from that Fleet used as mounted and foot archers) and attached them to Titus's Legion XV Apollinaris for at least the Galilean Campaign of the First Jewish Rebellion, that is according to my findings with certain artifacts in my collection as well as others. There are also suggestions that the museum that Augustus had founded at Capri had either been moved to Misenum by Tiberius, or that another museum had been established there. I have excellent evidence from what is inscribed on artifacts that the museum had been staffed by archeological/folklore/religious/art/artisan experts (with at least some who could be mobile), and that at least under Vespasian and Titus, that they had been controlled by the Praetorian Specultores Augusti along with the Fleet Commander. There is also some evidence that shows that a unit of that Fleet's Marines (that very possibly included some sailors) had been included in that imperial chain of command, no doubt hand picked, but also members of a society connected to the museum.