A report on Calendar era and Pompeian era

Bust of Pompey

The Pompeian Era was a calendar era used by Hellenistic cities in Roman Palestine, in particular the cities of the Decapolis.

- Pompeian era

Throughout the Roman and Byzantine periods, the Decapolis and other Hellenized cities of Syria and Palestine used the Pompeian era, counting dates from the Roman general Pompey's conquest of the region in 63 BC.

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Bust of Pompey

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Group of ten Hellenistic cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in the southern Levant in the first centuries BCE and CE.

Group of ten Hellenistic cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in the southern Levant in the first centuries BCE and CE.

Roman theatre and cardo of Scythopolis (Beit She'an, Israel)
The oval forum and cardo of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)
The provinces of the East in the year 400

For centuries the cities based their calendar era on this conquest: 63 BCE was the epochal year of the Pompeian era, used to count the years throughout the Roman and Byzantine periods.