Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Jerusalem, 20 BCE to 135 CE. Soft limestone ossuary. Funerary.

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20 BCE to 135 CE Judaea Jerusalem

"Jerusalem(?)," probably referring to those parts of the city that were under Jordanian rule between 1948 and June 1967.

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אליעזר בר שכניה

Eli'ezer, son of Shekhanya ("beetle-browed"?)

אליעזר בר שכניה

Damaged ossuary has inner ledge on three sides and flat, sliding lid. The name אליעזר is well attested in the literature of the period, but more frequently occurs on ossuaries as אלעזר. The name שכניה is a contraction of שכניהו; it appears on a seventh to sixth century BCE seal from the couth of the country, as a post-exilic name, and is also the name of one of the priestly "courses" (I Chronicles 24:11). Because there is no later record of the name, though the priestly courses were well known and documented, the possibility exists that here it is actually a nickname meaning "beetle-browed." Such nicknames, alluding to a physical characteristic of the deceased, are common.

144 plate 41, fig. 288:R