This unornamented ossuary has an inner ledge on four sides. Lid is missing. Several readings of the inscription are possible: The first (right-most) character could be a mem or a samekh (though it differs from second-to-last character, supporting the former interpretation); the fifth could be a yod or a vav. Assuming transposition of the fifth and sixth characters, with the sixth read as yod, Vincent, Lugscheider, Clermont-Ganneau and Kautzsch read סרי חסיה or מר יחסיה and Klein reads מר חסיה. Rahmani suggests either מרי חוסה, "my lord Hosah" (the name is attested in the Bible as that of a Levitic family in Davidic times), or מר יחוסה, "Master Iahosa," Iahosa being a form of Ἰάχος in the pattern of אוכלוסא for ὄχλος (Gen. Rabbah 6:4; Num. Rabbah 6:9) and כרכסא for ϰέρϰος (Esth. Rabbah to 1:10). Inclusion of the engraver's relationship to the deceased, as in "master" here, is attested in other inscriptions, e.g. אבונה, "our father," and [אמנ[ה, "our mother."