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 East Talpiyot

Judaea. Jerusalem. East Talpiyot.

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מתיה מתה

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מתיה מתה

Broken and reconstructed ossuary has low feet and a flat, broken lid. The name מתיה, a contraction of מתתיהו, appears on a narrow side (left or right) of the chest. The letters מתה appear inside the chest on one of its long sides (front or back), inscribed vertically as is common for writing on an ossuary's interior. They may have spelled a second מתיה, whose yod has worn away; repetition of the name of the deceased may express grief of the mourner(s) or improve upon an unsatisfactory first inscription.

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