Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Judaea. Jerusalem. 20 BCE to 135 CE. Soft limestone ossuary. Funerary.

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20 BCE to 135 CE Judaea Jerusalem Mount Scopus Shulamit Gardens

Judaea. Jerusalem. Eastern slope of Mount Scopus. Shulamit Gardens.

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מרה מרתא

Mara. Martha

מרה מרתא

Ossuary has inner ledge on three sides and flat, sliding lid. מרא is a contraction of מרתא attested as a Jewish name in Rome, also occurring in Cyrenaica. Here the name appears in both contracted and plene forms -- the first on the rim of the chest on one of its narrow sides, the second beneath it on the chest itself -- as is true of other names on ossuaries in the area. Repetition of the name of the deceased may express grief of the mourner(s) or improve upon an unsatisfactory first inscription.

181-182 plate 68; fig. 468, narrow side (detail)