# Roman Pigs in Judea, or Close Encounters of the Swinish Kind

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-the-ancient-near-east-3467259/roman-pigs-in-judea-or-close-encounters-of-the-swinish-kind
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-the-ancient-near-east-3467259/roman-pigs-in-judea-or-close-encounters-of-the-swinish-kind.md
Podcast: [This Week in the Ancient Near East](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-the-ancient-near-east-3467259)
Published: 2025-08-11T11:37:11+00:00
Episode link: https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/roman-pigs-in-judea-or-close-encounters-of-the-swinish-kind/
Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/8itt76k2ytxifv7x/podcast_120_-_8_6_25_111_PMbr32h.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-the-ancient-near-east-3467259/episodes/roman-pigs-in-judea-or-close-encounters-of-the-swinish-kind
Duration seconds: 2142

## Resource

Romans sure loved their pigs. Soldiers were even buried with pig jawbones at Legio in the Jezreel Valley after military feasts (which doesn’t sound kosher). They brought pig power to the Levant, but hey, what did the Romans ever do for us?

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-the-ancient-near-east-3467259/episodes/roman-pigs-in-judea-or-close-encounters-of-the-swinish-kind/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-the-ancient-near-east-3467259/roman-pigs-in-judea-or-close-encounters-of-the-swinish-kind.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.