Pontius Pilate named on Herodian Palace silver ring. Malcolm Hoenlein: @conf_of_pres; @ThadMcCotter
Image: Herod’s northern palace lobby Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, and Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, American Greatness; in re; Phoenician culture very much included silver; wars with Rome were related to mineral exploration and Mediterranean expansion. Phoenicians flourished until Hannibal. They spread the alphabet. Archaeology shows them active in the 11th Century BCE. “Silver Rush.” A silver ring found at the Herodian palace near Bethlehem; it's inscribed with the name Pontius Pilate (“Pilatus”). The Pilate stone in Caesarea. [“Pontius” was a common name, but “Pilatus” was rare.] , Permissions: Herod’s northern palace lobby עברית: האכסדרה הצפונית בארמון הורדוס , Original Image Name:הרודיון, Notes:אתר ארכאולוגי מתקופת בית שני שבו מבצר דמוי גבעה ועיר מלכותית, שנבנו על ידי המלך הורדוס ונמצאים כ-12 קילומטרים מדרום לירושלים, Location:הרודיון Date10 November 2009 / Source Yehudit Garinkol via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project / (http://www.pikiwiki.org.il/?action=gallery&img_id=6120) Authorיהודית גרעין-כל Yehudit Garinkol