Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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

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doubled palm-trunk frames front of chest metopes within frames interlaced encircled six-petalled rosettes in metopes concentric line circles encircling rosettes discs outer corners of metopes 20 BCE to 70 CE Judaea Jerusalem Ramat Eshkol

Judaea. Jerusalem. Ramat Eshkol.

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Θένας

Thenas

Θένας

Broken and reconstructed ossuary has inner ledge on two sides and low feet. Lid is missing. Ornamentation, on the chest's front side, consists of two metopes in doubled palm-trunk frames and a broadened triglyph containing a multi-leaved, upright branch. Each metope contains multiple, interlaced six-petalled rosettes within concentric line circles and small discs in outer corners. Θένας is a form of the male name Θεένας, probably derived from the Hebrew תאנה, "fig tree." An ossuary found in the same tomb is inscribed, "Maria, daughter of Thenas" (see inscription "jeru0140"); it probably belongs to Thenas' daughter.

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