Ambivulus (sources)

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Ancient Jewish sources

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities

Ant XVIII 2, 2 -- Marcus Ambivius came to be Coponius's successor in that government; under whom Salome, the sister of king Herod, died, and left to Julia, [Caesar's wife,] Jamnia, all its toparchy, and Phasaelis in the plain, and Arehelais, where is a great plantation of palm trees, and their fruit is excellent in its kind. After him came Annius Rufus...