Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Unknown provenance. 20 BCE to 135 CE. Soft limestone ossuary with incised ornamentation. Funerary.

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zigzag frames front of chest metopes within frames encircled six-petalled rosettes in metopes concentric line circles encircling rosettes discs in circles of right-hand rosette zigzag in circles of left-hand rosette palm tree triglyph encircled twelve-petalled rosette left side of chest concentric line circles encircling rosette lattice pattern right side of chest 20 BCE to 135 CE Judaea Unknown

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חלתא מרים ברת שמעון

the ossuary (of) Maryam, daughter of Shim'on

חלתא מרים ברת שמעון

Ossuary has red wash and low feet. Lid is missing. Ornamentation on the chest's front side consists of two metopes in zigzag frames and a triglyph transformed into a palm tree by means of small circles incised in freehand to indicate scales on trunk, with many spreading and ascending branches issuing from trunk. Each metope contains a six-petalled rosette within concentric line circles; the left-hand circles contain small circles, while the right-hand circles contain a zigzag. On the chest's left side is a twelve-petalled rosette within concentric line circles; on the right side, a lattice pattern. Inscription appears on the upper-right corner of the front side. חלתא is a word for ossuary; it and other such words are commonly found. שמעון is a very common name.

189 plate 76, fig. 502:F plate 76, fig. 502:F (detail) plate 76, fig. 502:L plate 76, fig. 502:R