“This discovery is a testament to the meticulous administrative re-organization of the Roman Empire during the Tetrarchy,” Hebrew University’s Uzi Leibner, a co-author of the study, said in ...

This remarkable find sheds light on the administrative practices of the Roman Empire during the reign of Emperor Diocletian ... when he established a system of governance known as the Tetrarchy.

The stone was originally used to delineate agricultural borders between the villages under Roman Emperor Diocletian’s tax reform laws instituted during the Roman Tetrarchy’s brief reign of power.