Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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

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doubled zigzag frames at top and sides of front of chest fluted frame at base of front of chest metopes within frames encircled six-petalled rosettes in metopes concentric line circles encircling rosettes doubled horizontal fluting triglyph 20 BCE to 70 CE Judaea Jerusalem French Hill

Judaea. Jerusalem. French Hill.

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של אמו של ידן יהודה יהודה

Of (his) mother of Yudan. Yehuda. Yehuda

של אמו של ידן יהודה יהודה

Ossuary has inner ledge on two sides; chest and lid share similar irregularities in shape. Height describes that of chest plus that of gabled lid with fingergrips. Ornamentation, on the chest's front side, consists of two metopes, in doubled zigzag frames at sides and top and a fluted frame at base, and a triglyph with doubled horizontal fluting. Each metope contains a six-petalled rosette within concentric line circles. ידן is a contraction of יודן, a common local name in the second and particularly third through fifth centuries CE; such reference to a deceased woman as "X, mother of Y" occurs occasionally. That phrase appears on the chest's lid, while the name Yehuda appears twice on the chest's right side, written in two different Jewish scripts. It may refer to the later interment of an infant son to the ossuary -- in which case the repetition of his name may express grief of the mourner(s), or improve upon an unsatisfactory first inscription -- or it may be the name of the son who collected his mother's remains. If he is the ידן of the lid, then the name occurs in both contracted and plene forms, as on other ossuaries from the area. Parentheses in the translation reflect the literal meaning of אמו, "his mother."

161 plate 52, fig. 370 plate 52, fig. 370:Lid (detail)