Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 jeru0122 jeru0122

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

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20 BCE to 135 CE Judaea Jerusalem Mount Scopus western slope

Judaea. Jerusalem. Western slope of Mount Scopus.

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ΧΨΑΒ

ΧΨ ΑΒ

Broken and partially reconstructed ossuary has inner ledge on two sides and flat, cut-to-measure lid. Inscription appears on a narrow side of the chest (left or right), near a break in the stone. It is inverted and slanting downwards. Tzaferis reads them differently, as ΨΒΧA with alpha upside down, and interprets them as initials. Similar inscriptions appear on two other ossuaries found on Mount Scopus' western slope (see inscriptions "jeru0121" and "jeru0").

151 plate 46, fig. 322:Narrow side and Lid (detail)