Bad juju
It seems fitting that something from the end of Christ’s time in Earth should find its way to the place where it all began.
Ping!
And this important ring was just left, literally, lying around?
I find that a little hard to believe. I wonder if they had counterfeiters back then?
Authentic. Can clearly see “McCain” on it.
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Interesting that the seal of a Roman governor would spell his name in Greek.
Pilate’s family was orginally from Samnium.
The Samnites were a particularly nasty race from Southern Italy. It took three wars to conquer them. The fact that they were a hill tribe forced the Romans to restructure their military from the
Greek phalanx type formation to the far more flexible manipular legion which served them well in future battles and wars.
Pilate’s family may have been from the upper classes as Romans frequently incorporated local hotshot into their government structure.
Spam from the Danbury Mint hawking a knockoff replica coming to my inbox in 3.....2.....1.....
Is the only thing on the ring that’s readable “Pilate i.e. in Latin Pilatus “? No Pontius script readable?
And from the Latin Pilatus , literally “armed with javelins,” from pilum “javelin”.
I’ve read that in the Roman Army the slang word Pilatus was often used for 1st Pilum (1st javelin) - the top centurion in the maniple or maybe cohort - like maybe master sergeant today. So this could just be the ring of such a person rather then have any direct connection to Pontius Pilate.
Mow when they say the ring is the “hallmark of cavalry” do they mean the mounted cavalry which were often auxiliaries (foreign) usually with Roman officers or the Equites (knightly- noble) class of Romans. I also read somewhere that Pontius Pilates was much lower class more like Marcus Agrippa - a self made Roman governing thug!
In any case, where's it been for 50 years, lost in a US government warehouse?