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Judaea. Jerusalem, 20 BCE to 70 CE. Ossuary. Funerary.
Soft limestone ossuary with chip-carved ornamentation
Judaea. Jerusalem. Kidron Valley, southeast of Ἑn Rogel.
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יועזר בר
יהוסף
Yo'ezer, [son of Ye]hosef
בריהוסף
The ossuary has low feet and traces of red wash. Lid, broken, is flat. Ornamentation consists of three metopes in a zigzag frame on the front of the chest, with triglyphs replaced by palm-tree motif. Each outer metope contains a six-petalled rosette within a whirl-rosette. In the central one, a six-petalled rosette is encircled by a palm-trunk patterned circle, with its petal tips connected by segments. יועזר is a contracted form of the name יהועזר. Klein read the second name of the inscription, Yehosef, as denoting an additional person in the ossuary, rather than as a father's name.