Unfinished ossuary has inner ledge on two sides and a cornice bearing leaf-pattern under rim on all sides. Dimensions in parentheses include cornice; height describes that of chest plus that of lid with very narrow gable. Ornamentation on all four sides of the chest consists of an ashlar-wall pattern inside a line frame. On the front side, two circles are incised as preparation for rosettes. Ornamentation on the lid consists of an ashlar-wall pattern within a line frame and superimposed twenty-four-petalled rosettes on the front and back sides, and line frames on left and right gables. Right gable contains the inscription. Cross reads the first line as לאית לאנש למעלה, "no man can go up (from the grave)," in the sense of "lift himself up"; Puech interprets it as forbidding burial in this ossuary to anyone but El'azar and Shappira. Naveh refutes both, regarding this ossuary as unique among Jewish ossuaries in bearing an d epigram. He reads למעלה with the sense of "his entering" (into the grave). Such an epigram would parallel the formula common in Classical epitaphs, οὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος, "nobody is immortal."