Tiberius Julius Lupus (died AD 73) was a member of the

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who was '' praefectus'' or governor of

Roman Egypt , conventional_long_name = Roman Egypt , common_name = Egypt , subdivision = Province , nation = the Roman Empire , era = Late antiquity , capital = Alexandria , title_leader = Praefectus Augustalis , image_map = Roman E ...

from 71 to 73. He was the older brother of Lucius Julius Ursus; their father was

Julius Lupus The gens Julia (''gēns Iūlia'', ) was one of the most prominent patrician families in ancient Rome. Members of the gens attained the highest dignities of the state in the earliest times of the Republic. The first of the family to obtain the ...

, the brother-in-law of the

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Marcus Arrecinus Clemens and uncle of

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, the wife of the emperor Titus. It was this connection that likely enabled Lupus to be appointed to the governorship. While governor of Egypt, Lupus is attested as hearing the Colossi of Memnon sing, one of many ancient Romans known to have witnessed this phenomenon. A damaged collection of legal decisions records that Lupus had presided over a case involving an inheritance. After the fall of Masada, according to Josephus, members of a militant Jewish sect known as the Sicarii managed to escape destruction in the First Jewish–Roman War and some took refuge in Alexandria. At first these survivors lived quietly in the city, but after a time they quarreled with their coreligionists, and the two groups fell to fighting each other. Lupus reported this disturbance to the emperor Vespasian, who ordered Lupus to close the Jewish temple of Onias in

Leontopolis Leontopolis was an ancient Egyptian city located in the Nile Delta, Lower Egypt. It served as a provincial capital and Metropolitan Archbishopric. The archaeological site and settlement are known today as Kafr Al Muqdam. Name Known most popular ...

. Lupus died in office not much later; P. J. Sijpesteijn argues that Julius Lupus died in Autumn 73.Sijpesteijn
"Flavius Josephus and the Praefect of Egypt in 73 A.D."
'' Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte'', 28 (1979), p. 119 His successor Gaius Valerius Paulinus ordered the temple destroyed.

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