Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 jeru0123 jeru0123

Unknown provenance. 20 BCE to 250 CE. Fragment of soft limestone ossuary. Funerary.

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20 BCE to 250 CE Judaea Unknown

Purchased on the antiquities market, provenance unknown

Beth Shemesh, IAA inv. no 1969.666

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יהוסף מרה בר בניה בר יהודה

Master Yehosef, son of Benaya, son of Yehud[a]

יהוסף מרה בר בניה בר יהודה

Fragment of long side of an ossuary chest. מרה occurs on ossuaries dated earlier than 70 CE. It is an honorific title comparable to סבא, also of the period. בניה is a contraction of the Biblical בניהו that appears in Talmudic literature of the early third century CE. The last word might be the name יהודה or its rare contraction יהוד; the stone is broken after the dalet. Mention of a grandparent of the deceased on an ossuary is infrequent.

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