A ring from the Herodium reading "Pilatus"
A cheap sealing ring from a Herodian site carries the name Pilatus.
UmstrittenObjekt1st century AD
A simple copper-alloy sealing ring excavated fifty years before anyone could read it. Modern imaging showed a wine vessel and the Greek letters PILATO. Rings of this type were everyday objects, used by officials and their staff.
ΠΙΛΑΤΟ — Pilato.
- Gefunden
- Herodium, West Bank, 1969 — Gideon Foerster's excavation; the inscription read in 2018
- Heute in
- Israel Antiquities Authority
- Sprache
- Greek
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
The name is rare in the region, but the ring is an ordinary type and would be unusual for a prefect's own use. It may have belonged to someone working for him, or to another Pilatus. The excavators themselves say so.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
Reported in the Israel Exploration Journal with the caveats intact; treated as suggestive rather than conclusive.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Amorai-Stark et al., "An Inscribed Copper-Alloy Finger Ring from Herodium", IEJ 68 (2018)
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