[DIS AUGUSTI]S TIBERIÉUM
[...PO]NTIUS PILATUS
[...PRAEF]ECTUS IUDA[EA]E
[...FECIT D]E[DICAVIT]
Transation:
To the Divine Augusti [this] Tiberieum
[...Pontius Pilate
[...prefect of Judea
[...has dedicated
The only archaeological find with an inscription mentioning the name "Pontius Pilatus" praefectus Iudaeae. The limestone block was discovered in June 1961 by Italian archaeologists led by Dr. Antonio Frova reused in the IVth century as a building block for a set of stairs, stiill attached to the ancient staircase
See:
- Antonio Frova: L'Iscrizione Di Ponzio Pilato A Cesarea (Rend. Istituto Lombardo, accademia di scienze e lettere, classe di lettere 95). Milan: the author, 1961. pp. 419–434
- A. N Sherwin-White, “The Journal of Roman Studies.” The Journal of Roman Studies, vol. 54, 1964, pp. 258–259, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/298724.
- Robert J. Bull, Caesarea Maritima: The Search for Herod’s City - https://www.biblosfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/BAR.Article.CaesareaMaritima.pdf
- Joan Taylor: Pontius Pilate and the Imperial Cult in Roman Judaea, New Testament Studies - Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 564-575