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The Pilate Inscription
 
Pilate Inscription
An inscription from Caesarea Maritima mentioning the Prefect of Judea and Samaria responsible for executing Jesus by crucifixion.
 
 
 
 
Bibliography
 
Artifact
Israel Museum, Inventory number AE 1963 no. 104.
 
 
Secondary Literature
Cotton, Hannah M. and Werner Eck.  Governors and Their Personnel on Latin Inscriptions from Caesarea Maritima, Proceedings, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 7.7.  Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2001.
 
Evans, Craig A.  "Excavating Caiaphas, Pilate, and Simon of Cyrene: Assessing the Literary and Archaeological Evidence."  In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 323-40.  Republished in Jesus and the Remains of His Day: Studies in Jesus and the Evidence of Material Culure (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 2015).
 
Grüll, Tibor.  "Pilate's 'Tiberiéum': A New Approach."  Acta antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 41:3-4 (2001) 267-78.
 
Taylor, Joan E.  "Pontius Pilate and the Imperial Cult in Roman Judaea."  New Testament Studies 52:4 (2006) 555-82.
 
Vardaman, E. Jerry.  "A New Inscription Which Mentions Pilate as 'Prefect.'"  Journal of Biblical Literature 81:1 (1962) 70-71.
 
 
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