Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

ERROR-could not find publication information which should appear in this space.

 jeru0002 jeru0002

Judaea. Jerusalem. 20 BCE to 70 CE. Soft limestone ossuary with chip-carved ornamentation. Funerary.

 23 37 20

zigzag frames front of chest metopes within frames encircled twelve-petalled rosettes within metopes zigzag circles encircling rosettes 20 BCE to 70 CE Judaea Jerusalem Mount Scopus western slope

Judaea. Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, western slope.

ERROR: could not find taxonomies file, which should appear in this space.

 Creation Normalized objectDesc/@ana Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value. Rerunning segmentation process with updated workflow

יששבח שלם

Ish(sh)bah, peace

יששבח שלם

The small size of this ossuary suggests that it was a child's. It has low feet and a flat, overhanging lid 40 cm long. Ornamentation, on the front side, consists of two metopes in zigzag frames. A twelve-petalled rosette within a zigzag circle sits inside each metope. The incised name יששבח, paralled in Palmyrene and Safaitic, may stand for ישבח with the letter shin doubled, as in the name יששכר. The word שלם is probably "peace," not the female name with similar spelling. The chest's right side has a large mark: a straight vertical line is crossed in its lower half by a horizontal line with ends curved down and inward (so that it resembles a straight line with small circles at either end). This mark may have been intended as a monogram, or it may represent scales, in an allusion to the occupation of the family of the deceased (in this case, as money-changers -- for discussion of other possible occupations such as baker, see Leclercq and Cabrol 1937, Dictionaire d'archeologie chretienne et de liturgie (s.v. ossuaires, cols. 22-27).).

75-76 plate 1, fig. 3 plate 1, fig. 3:R