Pompey's siege of Jerusalem in 63 bce lasted three months, until the city wall was finally breached. From the few references made by Josephus, we learn that Hyrcanus' men handed over the Upper City to Pompey. Thus the main effect of the siege and the thrust of the battle was concentrated around the Temple Mount. Apart from accounts of suicide carried out by civilians, who also set fire to their houses, there is no evidence of the conquest of the city's residential quarter, and it appears that the City of David was conquered only after the fall of the Temple Mount.

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