Pilate Inscription: Small Recreation (resin cast, about 9 inches tall by 7 1/2 inches wide). Information: Pontius Pilate (26-37AD). was the Roman official that ordered Jesus' crucifixion. In 1961 a monumental inscription was found in the coastal city of Caesaria in Israel, while archaeologists were excavating the amphitheatre there. The inscription is part of what was once a larger dedication to Tiberius Caesar and clearly reads "Pontius Pilate, Prefect of Judea".