JERU0027 Judaea. Jerusalem. 20 BCE to 70 CE. Soft limestone ossuary with chip-carved ornamentation. Funerary.
The ossuary has low feet and a flat, slightly overhanging lid. Ornamentation on the chest's front side consists of a two metopes in zigzag frames, each containing a six-petalled rosette within a zigzag circle. Broadened triglyph contains a plant with base of tiny triangles, ivy-leaf top and eighteen tendrils. The name is inscribed throughout this ornamentation like so: Μ and Α in either of the upper corners of the left metope, and Ρ in the upper right of the rosette therein; Θ and Α in either of the upper corners of the right metopes, with Ϲ in the upper right of the rosette therein.
Greek
H: 28 cm.; W: 61 cm.; D: 22 cm.
20 BCE to 70 CE
Jerusalem, Judaea. Mount Scopus, western slope.
Judaea. Jerusalem. Mount Scopus, western slope.
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zigzag frames (front of chest)
metopes (within frames)
encircled six-petalled rosettes (within metopes)
zigzag circles (encircling rosettes)
broadened triglyph (between metopes)
plant (triglyph)
ivy leaf (top of plant)
('IIP-119', 'page', '87')
('IIP-119', 'page', '87')
('IIP-119', 'page', '87')
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