Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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Negev. Vicinity of Kibbutz Lahav. Ḥ. Rimmon. 70 CE - 250 CE. Ossuary. Funerary.

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20 BCE - 250 CE Negev Kibbutz Lahav31.3783,34.8704 Ḥ. Rimmon

Vicinity of Kibbutz Lahav. Ḥ. Rimmon.

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יעקב בירבי

Ya'aqov Birebbi

יעקב בירבי

Worn ossuary. Height describes that of chest plus that of lid with truncated gable. This inscription constitutes the first occurrence of the honorific title "Birebbi," meaning "great one" (or, literally, "son of the great"). The title is granted to eminent scholars in the early-third century CE Talmudic sources; it occurs on second and third century tombstones in the Jewish cemeteries of Jaffa and Bet She'arim, and later on mosaic synagogue floors.

257-258 plate 131, fig. 865:F plate 131, fig. 865:Lid