Samnium
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Samnium is a Latin exonym for a region of Southern Italy anciently inhabited by the Samnites. Their own endonyms were Safinim for the country and Safineis for the people. The language of these endonym
Samnite soldiers, from a tomb frieze in Nola, Campania, 4th century BC.
Pontius Pilate
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Pontius Pilate was the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, serving under Emperor Tiberius from 26/27 to 36/37 AD. He is best known for being the official who presided over the trial of Jes
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…Pontius Telesinus – Samnite commander to Papius Pontius Pilate – the 5th Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea from AD 26–36. Pope Felix IV…
Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), Antonio Ciseri's depiction, c. 1860, of Pilate presenting a scourged Jesus to the people of Jerusalem
Duccio, Christ before Pilate, c. 1310, from his Maestà in Siena
Christ before Pilate, Mihály Munkácsy, 1881
A remorseful Pilate prepares to kill himself. Engraving by G. Mochetti after B. Pinelli, early 19th century.