1st-century texts

autobiographical inscription of Augustus Caesar, at Temple of Rome and Augustus at Ankara, Turkey

Jewish apocryphal text written in the late 1st century CE or early 2nd century CE

1st-century piece of limestone with inscription mentioning Pontius Pilate

bronze tablet with part of a speech by Roman emperor Claudius

ancient Jewish Text

1st-century Jewish text

series of personal missives by Pliny the Younger directed to his friends

Pseudo-Phocylides is an apocryphal work, at one time, claiming to have been written by Phocylides, a Greek philosopher of the 6th century BC. Its authorship was deciphered by Jacob Bernays. The text is noticeably Jewish, and depends on the Septuagint, although it does not make direct references to either the Hebrew Bible or Judaism. Textual and linguistic studies point to the work as having originally been written in Greek, and having originated somewhere between 100BC and 100AD, although the oldest surviving manuscripts date from the 10th century AD.