Ossuary with a Hebrew/Aramaic inscription for Martha and Hananiya from Jerusalem (JLM0166)

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Title

Ossuary with a Hebrew/Aramaic inscription for Martha and Hananiya from Jerusalem (JLM0166)

Description

Ossuary with a two-line Hebrew/Aramaic inscription for Martha and Hananiya from Jerusalem, dated to the 1st c. CE.

Source

Publisher

CIIP1: 252

Date

Language

Identifier

JLM0166

Sarcophagus or Ossuary Item Type Metadata

Decoration

Two-line inscription incised on the side of the ossuary.

Language

Diplomatic

מרתא
חנניה

Edition

mrt' | ḥnnyh

Translation

Martha, Hananiya

Diplomatic Constituted From

CIIP1

Edition Constituted From

CIIP1

Translation Constituted From

CIIP1

Findspot

Burial cave in Jebel Batn el-Hawa, the Mount of Olives

Name 1

Name 2

Notes

Found in the same burial cave as JLM0165-JLM0166, JLM0168-JLM0172.

Selected Bibliography

CIIP1=Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, volume I: Jerusalem: a multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, Ameling et. al. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2014. pp.280, no.252.

Citation

“Ossuary with a Hebrew/Aramaic inscription for Martha and Hananiya from Jerusalem (JLM0166),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed March 29, 2024, https://wireproject.org/items/show/399.

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