Ossuary with a Hebrew inscription for Shalom, wife of El'azar from Jerusalem (JLM0199)

Dublin Core

Title

Ossuary with a Hebrew inscription for Shalom, wife of El'azar from Jerusalem (JLM0199)

Description

Limestone ossuary with rosettes and a Hebrew inscription for Shalom, identified as the wife of El'azar, from Jerusalem, dated to the 1st c. BCE/CE.

Source

Publisher

CIIP1: 340

Format

Limestone

Language

Identifier

JLM0199

Sarcophagus or Ossuary Item Type Metadata

Physical Dimensions

H 73cm
W 41cm
D 35cm

Decoration

Two rosettes in different styles on the facade, and two disks on the roof. One rosette on each short end of the ossuary. The inscription is incised on the facade above one rosette. Gabled lid.

Language

Diplomatic

שלום אשת אלעזר

Edition

šlwm ʾšt ʾlʿzr

Translation

Shalom, wife of El'azar

Diplomatic Constituted From

CIIP1

Edition Constituted From

CIIP1

Translation Constituted From

CIIP1

Findspot

Burial cave near Deir es-Sineh in the Kidron Valley

Current Location (if known)

JLM0198-JLM0011 were all found in the same burial cave in the Kidron Valley.

Name 1

Role 1

Name 2

Role 2

Notes

JLM0198, JLM0199, JLM001-JLM0004 were all found in the same burial cave in the Kidron Valley.

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.361-362, no.340.

Citation

“Ossuary with a Hebrew inscription for Shalom, wife of El'azar from Jerusalem (JLM0199),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed March 28, 2024, https://wireproject.org/items/show/432.

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