Inscriptions from Israel and Palestine
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JERU0186

Judaea. Jerusalem. French Hill. 20 BCE to 70 CE. Soft limestone ossuary with chip-carved ornamentation. Funerary.
Transcription

יהוסף בר חגי יהוסף בר חגי יהוסף בר חגי

Translation

Yehosef, son of Ḥaggai. Yehosef, son of Ḥaggai. Yehosef, son of Ḥaggai

Diplomatic

[no diplomatic]

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Notes
Ossuary has inner ledge on four sides and low feet. Height describes that of chest plus that of gabled lid with fingergrips, broken and partially reconstructed. Ornamentation, on the chest's front side, consists of two metopes in frames formed by multi-leaved branches at sides, frieze of palm-trunk pattern at top, and a zigzag at base. Each metope contains a sixteen-petalled rosette within concentric line circles, with petals shaped as ivy leaves, and discs in all corners. The name of the deceased in inscribed once each on the lid's front and back sides and the chest's front side, on the rim. The name Ḥaggai appears at Masada and (possibly) on another Jerusalem ossuary.

Languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Dimensions

H: 34+15 cm; W: 71.5 cm; D: 27 cm

Date

20 BCE to 70 CE

Current location

No provenance provided.

Figures

  • concentric line circles encircling rosettes

  • ivy-leaf shaped petals rosettes

  • encircled sixteen-petalled rosettes in metopes

  • discs corners of metopes

  • frieze of palm-trunk pattern at top of front of chest

  • multi-leaved branches at sides of front of chest

  • zigzag at bottom of front of chest

  • metopes within frames

Bibliography

Source of diplomatic

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Source of transcription

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Source of translation

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Other sources

  • Rahmani, L.Y. A Catalogue of Jewish Ossuaries in the Collections of the State of Israel. Edited by Ayala Sussmann. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1994.
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  • Rahmani, L.Y. A Catalogue of Jewish Ossuaries in the Collections of the State of Israel. Edited by Ayala Sussmann. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1994.
    Zotero
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