Lucius Artorius Castus was a Roman military commander. A member of the gens Artoria, he has been suggested as a potential historical basis for King Arthur, although this connection is no longer consid
Drawing of the Lucius Artorius Castus inscription from Podstrana, as read (with minor errors) by professor Frane Bulić in the late 1880s (source: T. G. Jackson, "Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria", Oxford, 1887, pp. 167)