Editing Hadrian (section)

====Aftermath; persecutions====
[[File:0 Monument honoraire d’Hadrien - L'empereur accueilli par la déesse Rome (2).JPG|thumb|Relief from an honorary monument of Hadrian (detail), showing the emperor being greeted by the [[Roma (mythology)|goddess Roma]] and the [[Genius (mythology)|Genii]] of [[Roman Senate|the Senate]] and the Roman People; marble, Roman artwork, 2nd century AD, [[Capitoline Museums]], Vatican City]]

Roman war operations in Judea left some 580,000 Jews dead and 50 fortified towns and 985 villages razed.<ref name=DioRH/>

An unknown proportion of the population was enslaved. The extent of punitive measures against the Jewish population remains a matter of debate.<ref name=DRS11/>

Hadrian renamed Judea province [[Syria Palaestina]]. He renamed Jerusalem [[Aelia Capitolina]] after himself and [[Jupiter Capitolinus]] and had the city rebuilt in Greek style. According to Epiphanius, Hadrian appointed [[Aquila of Sinope|Aquila from Sinope]] in Pontus as "overseer of the work of building the city", since he was related to him by marriage.<ref>Epiphanius, "On Weights and Measures" §14: Hadrian's Journey to the East and the Rebuilding of Jerusalem, Renan Baker, ''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'', Bd. 182 (2012), pp. 157–167. Published by: Rudolf Habelt GmbH, available through JSTOR (subscription required, accessed 25 March 2012).</ref> Hadrian is said to have placed the city's main [[Roman Forum|Forum]] at the junction of the main [[Cardo]] and [[Decumanus Maximus]], now the location for the (smaller) [[Muristan]]. After the suppression of the Jewish revolt, Hadrian provided the Samaritans with a temple dedicated to Zeus Hypsistos ("Highest Zeus")<ref>Ken Dowden, ''Zeus''. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006, {{ISBN|0-415-30502-0}}, p. 58.</ref> on [[Mount Gerizim]].<ref>Anna Collar (2013), ''Religious Networks in the Roman Empire''. Cambridge University Press, pp. 248–249, {{ISBN|978-1-107-04344-2}}.</ref> The bloody repression of the revolt ended Jewish political independence from the Roman imperial order.<ref>Geza Vermes (2006), ''Who's Who in the Age of Jesus'', entry "Hadrian", Penguin, {{ISBN|0140515658}}.</ref>