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Judaea. Jerusalem. 20 BCE to 70 CE. Soft limestone ossuary with chip-carved ornamentation. Written in charcoal. Funerary.
Judaea. Jerusalem. Talpiyot.
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Ἰησοῦς Ἰού
Jesus, son of Juda
Ossuary has inner ledge on two sides, low feet, flat lid, and yellow wash also on underside of lid. Ornamentation, on the chest's front side, consists of fluted frame containing metope frame, with a two-columned porch in the center flanked on left and right by a six-petalled rosette within concentric line circles. Inscription is in charcoal, partly effaced.