Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Jeru 0632

Jerusalem, 1CE-100CE. Ossuary Lid. Funerary, Label.

This ossuary was made of soft limestone.

The lid was forcibly removed from the ossuary, perhaps by grave looters.

The first line is in Greek and the second line is in Hebrew,

Incised

 First Century CE Judaea Jerusalem Burial Cave On Diskin Street

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

Initial Entry Edited

Ἰασίωνיסיון

Ἰασίωνיסיון

Iasion Iasion

This Greek and Hebrew engraving of the "Iasion" appears on the front long side of the ossuary lid. The same inscription is engraved on the rear long side of the ossuary lid but with the line order reversed – Hebrew on top Greek below.

Ἰασίων יסיון

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