honours of their fatherland, they esteemed Hellenic glories best of all.” Nevertheless, and in translation of course this is easy to miss, the text itself is written in Greek. This in itself indicates that [...] by the amount of epigraphic and archaeological evidence in the city of Rome and all over the Roman Empire: at least thirty-five so-called synagogues have been excavated and more than three hundred inscriptions [...] Romano-Jewish Identity” in John M.G. Barclay, ed, Negotiating Diaspora: Jewish Strategies in the Roman Empire. (London: T&T Clark, 2004), 10. ↩ Williams, “Being a Jew in Rome”, 10. ↩