Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Judaea. Jerusalem. 20 BCE to 70 CE. Soft limestone ossuary with finely incised ornamentation. Funerary.

 31.5+5 68 29.5

zigzag frame front of chest frieze of semi-circles top and bottom edges of front of chest metopes within frames encircled six-petalled rosettes in metopes zigzags overlaying petals zigzag circles encircling rosettes zigzag quarter-circles outer corners of metopes palm-tree motif replacing triglyphs zigzag semi-circles indicating branches and roots tree 20 BCE to 70 CE Judaea Jerusalem Mount Scopus western slope

Judaea. Jerusalem. Western slope of Mount Scopus.

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אחא ויעקוב ברה

Aha and Ya'aqov, his son

אחא ויעקוב ברה

Broken and reconstructed ossuary has red wash and low feet. Height describes that of chest plus that of gabled lid with fingergrips. Ornamentation, on the chest's front side, consists of four metopes in a zigzag frame, a frieze at top and base of interlaced semi-circles with zigzag border, and vestiges of a palm-tree motif replacing triglyphs. Zigzag semi-circles indicate ascending branches, mirrored by roots. Each metope contains a six-petalled rosette within a zigzag circle, with zigzags overlaying petals and zigzag quarter-circles in outer corners. אחא is a contraction of אחיהו or אחאב, common in Talmudic literature only from the late-second century CE, but occuring also on an ostracon from Samaria and on seventh century BCE seal-impressions on Judaean jar-handles.

167 plate 57, fig. 396