There had been a sizable Jewish community in that city at least since Pompey’s capture of Jerusalem in 63 B.C.E., when a large number of prisoners were led to Rome as slaves.
अक्विला डाइस्पोरा (बिखरे हुए यहूदी) से एक यहूदी था और उत्तरी एशिया माइनर के एक क्षेत्र, पुन्तुस का एक निवासी था ।