Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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

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porch, columned front of chest plain frieze above porch altar in one intercolumnar space 20 BCE to 70 CE Judaea Jerusalem Mount Scopus western slope

Judaea. Jerusalem. Mount Scopus, western slope.

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שמעון בוטון בוטון

Shim'on of (the family of) Boethos. Of (the family of) Boethos.

שמעון בוטון בוטון

The ossuary has inner ledge on three sides and low feet. Lid is missing. Ornamentation on the chest's front side consists of a columned porch of vertical grooves capped by a plain frieze. The incised representation of an altar sits in the intercolumnar space second from left. The word בוטון is inscribed above the altar; the full name שמעון בוטון is inscribed near the top left corner of the chest. A mark like the altar here is interpreted as a sign or emblem of the profession of the deceased, in this case, priesthood. Sukenik links the ossuary to the particular priestly family of Simon b. Boethos of Alexandria, who lived in Jerusalem at the time of King Herod's rule; he reads בוטון as Βοηθῶν, genitive plural of Βοηθός.

85 plate 6, fig. 41:F plate 6, fig. 41:F (detail)