“There are two statues of Hadrian, and not far from the statues there is a perforated stone, to which the Jews come every year and anoint it, bewail themselves with groans, rend their garments, and so depart.”
– The Bordeaux Pilgrim, Itinerary 7a 333AD
“So when you see standing in the holy place the abomination that causes desolation: or to the statue of the mounted Hadrian, which stands to this very day on the site of the Holy of Holies.“
– Jerome, Commentaries on Isaiah 2.8: Matthew 24.15 400AD