Pontius Pilate Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Ameria inscription=== A second inscription, which has since been lost,{{sfn|MacAdam|2017|p=134}} has historically been associated with Pontius Pilate. It was a fragmentary, undated inscription on a large piece of marble recorded in [[Amelia, Umbria|Ameria]], a village in [[Umbria]], Italy.{{sfn|Bormann|1901|p=647}} The inscription read as follows: {{lang|la| :PILATVS :IIII VIR ::QVINQ|italics=no}} :([[Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum|CIL]] [http://db.edcs.eu/epigr/edcs_id.php?s_sprache=en&p_edcs_id=EDCS-21500305 XI.2.1.4396]) The only clear items of text are the names "Pilate" and the title [[quattuorvir]] ("IIII VIR"), a type of local city official responsible for conducting a [[census]] every five years.{{sfn|MacAdam|2001|p=73}} The inscription was formerly found outside the church of St. Secundus, where it had been copied from a presumed original.{{sfn|MacAdam|2001|p=73}} At the turn of the 20th century, it was generally held to be fake, a forgery in support of a local legend that Pontius Pilate died in exile in Ameria.{{sfn|Bormann|1901|p=647}} The more recent scholars Alexander Demandt and Henry MacAdam both believe that the inscription is genuine, but attests to a person who simply had the same [[cognomen]] as Pontius Pilate.{{sfn|Demandt|1999|p=82}}{{sfn|MacAdam|2001|p=73}} MacAdam argues that "[i]t is far easier to believe that this very fragmentary inscription prompted the legend of Pontius Pilate's association with the Italian village of Ameria [...] than it is to posit someone forging the inscription two centuries ago—quite creatively, it would seem—to provide substance for the legend."{{sfn|MacAdam|2017|p=134}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page