Unknown, Easter Chronicle 389.4-11
created: This entry is taken from Easter Chronicle 389.4-11 written by Unknown in ca. 630
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Caesarea Maritima is indirectly attested at Unknown, Easter Chronicle 389.4-11. This passage was written ca. ca. 630 C.E. possibly in Constantinople. The so-called Easter Chronicle (Chronicon paschale) is a universal history from the Creation down to the later reign of Heraclius, when it was composed, based an amalgam of biblical, Christian, and secular sources. While the work shows a particular interest in the dating of religious festivals, it contains a wealth of historical and geographic information. Like other chronographic works in the Byzantine tradition—John Malalas before and Theophanes the Confessor and George Syncellus after—the Easter Chronicle is organized annalistically with successive entries by year. In this passage the author records the appointment of Pontius Pilate to the prefecture of Judaea by Tiberius.

σαʹ Ὀλυμπιάς. Ἰνδ. ιβʹ. ιαʹ. ὑπ. Γετουλικοῦ καὶ Σαβίνου. Ἰνδ. ιγʹ. ιβʹ. ὑπ. Κράσσου καὶ Πίσωνος. Ἐπὶ τούτων τῶν ὑπάτων Πόντιος Πιλᾶτος ἐπίτροπος τῆς Ἰουδαίας ὑπὸ Τιβερίου ἐκπέμπεται ιβʹ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἱστορεῖ Ἰώσηπος. Ἰνδ. ιδʹ. ιγʹ. ὑπ. Σιλανοῦ καὶ Νερούα. Ἰνδ. ιεʹ. ιδʹ. ὑπ. Γεμίνου καὶ Γεμίνου.

[Ed. Dindorf 1832]

Olympiad 201 Indiction 12. Year 11. Consuls Gaetulicus and Sabinus. [26 C.E.] Indiction 13. Year 12. Consuls Crassus and Piso. [27 C.E.] Under these consuls Pontius Pilate was sent to be prοcurator of Judaea by Tiberius in the 12th year of his reign, as Josephus records. Indiction 14. Year 13. Consuls Silanus and Nerva. [28 C.E.] [Trans. J. L. Rife]

Works Cited

[...] 389.4-11

[Josephus]

[Judaea]

[Ap. Junius Silanus

C. Calvisius Sabinus

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus

L. Calpurnius Piso

M. Licinius Crassus Frugi

P. Silius Nerva

Pontius Pilate

Tiberius, emperor]

[Government and Law

Roman History]