A representation of the temple Tychæon erected to the Fortune of the City occurs on a coin of Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius (shortly before a.d. 161), which shows a tetrastyle temple. (Most of the temples depicted on the Gaza coins are distyle.) The goddess of the town, as well as the heifer, also appear on this coin.
FOOTNOTES:
[16] On some coins the word ΜΕΙΝΩ occurs. It refers to Minoa, the legendary name of Gaza, with reference to its foundation by Minos of Crete.—Meyer.
[17] Hadrianus, a.d. 117-138, favoured Gaza with several visits from a.d. 123-135. This probably accounts for De Saulcy (Numismatique de la Terre Sainte, Paris, 1874) being able to describe, on pp. 215-18, twenty-two Gaza coins of this reign.
[18] Historia Numorum, Head, p. 680.
[19] Encyclopædia Britannica, "Philistines," pp. 755-6, vol. xviii, ninth edition.
CHAPTER V
THE JEWS AT GAZA[20]
There is no record to show that the Jews obtained any stronghold in Gaza during Pagan times.
Pompey liberated Gaza c. 65 b.c., which had been subjected to the Jews since the times of the Maccabees, and restored the city to its freedom.