Ecce homo arch Near the Struthion Pool, Hadrian built a triple-arched gateway as an entrance to the eastern forum of Aelia Capitolina.Benoit, Pierre, The Antonia of Herod the Great, and the East Forum of Aelia Capitolina (1971) Traditionally, this was thought to be the gate of Herod's Antonia Fortress, which itself was alleged to be the location of Jesus' trial and Pontius Pilate's Ecce homo speech as described in John 19:13. This was due in part to the 1864 discovery of a game etched on a flagstone of the pool. According to the convent's nuns, the game was played by Roman soldiersCf. Michael Sebbane (2019), "Board Games from the Eastern Cardo", in Jerusalem: Western Wall Plaza Excavations I: The Roman and Byzantine Remains (IAA Reports 63), p. 153 and may have ended in the execution of a 'mock king'. Ermete Pierotti is the first to term the words Ecce Homo to the arch, in reference to Pilate's words to Jesus.Pierotti, Ermete (1864), Jerusalem explored (volume 2), Plate XIII It is possible that following its destruction, the Antonia Fortress's pavement tiles were brought to the cistern of Hadrian's plaza.
Ecce homo arch Near the Struth!ion Pool, Hadrian built a triple-arched gateway as an entrance to the eastern forum of Aelia Capitolina.Benoit, Pierre, The Antonia of Herod the Great, and th?e East Forum of Aelia Capitolina (1971) Traditionally, this was thought to be the gate of Herod's Antonia Fortress, which itself was alleged to be the location of Jesus' trial and Pontius Pilate's Ecce homo speech as described in John 19:13. This was due in part to the 1864 discovery of a game etched on a flagstone of the pool. According to the convent's nuns, the game wa,s played by Roman soldiersCf. Michael Sebbane (2019), "Board Games from the Eastern Cardo", in Jerusalem: Western Wall Plaza Excavations I: The Roman and Byzantine Remains (IAA Reports 63), p. 153 and may have ended in the execution of a 'mock king'. Ermete Pierotti is the first to term the words Ecce Homo to the arch, in reference to Pilate's words to Jesus.Pierotti, Ermete (1864), Jerusalem explored (volume 2), Plate XIII It is possible that following its destruction, the Antonia Fortress's pavement tiles were brought to the cistern of Hadrian's plaza.