Ossuary with a Hebrew/Aramaic inscription for Shelamzin from Jerusalem (JLM0170)
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Title
Ossuary with a Hebrew/Aramaic inscription for Shelamzin from Jerusalem (JLM0170)
Description
Ossuary with a single-line of Hebrew/Aramaic reading "Shelamzin," painted in blue-black along one long end. Found in the same burial cave as JLM0169-JLM0165. From Jerusalem, dated to the 1st c. CE.
Source
Publisher
CIIP1: 258
Date
Language
Identifier
JLM0170
Sarcophagus or Ossuary Item Type Metadata
Decoration
Inscription painted in blue-back on long side.
Language
Diplomatic
שלמצין
Edition
šlmṣyn
Translation
Shelamzin
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
Notes
This is the second Shelamzin from this context; both ossuaries had painted, rather an incised, inscriptions. This ossuary found in the same burial cave as JLM0165-JLM0169, JLM 0171-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.285-286, no.258.
Citation
“Ossuary with a Hebrew/Aramaic inscription for Shelamzin from Jerusalem (JLM0170),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed April 19, 2024, https://wireproject.org/items/show/403.