Ossuary with Hebrew/Aramaic inscriptions for a woman, mentioning her son (JLM0176)

Ossuary with Hebrew/Aramaic inscriptions for a woman, mentioning her son (JLM0176)

Ossuary with fragmentary Hebrew/Aramaic inscriptions which mention a woman (her name only partially preserved as " [--] ion") and her son. It is unclear if her son was also buried in the ossuary, was used to identify her, or was responsible for burying her. From Jerusalem, dated to the 1st c. BCE/CE.

CIIP1: 286

JLM0176

H 24cm
W 42.5cm
D 22.5cm

Incised inscriptions on long side.

(a) יון[--]
(b) ס בנ ה[--]

(a) [--]ywn
(b) [--] bnh

(a) ...ion
(b) ...s her son (?)

CIIP1

CIIP1

CIIP1

Rock-cut tomb at Jebel Khallet et-Turi

JLM0174 and JLM0175 were also found within the same tomb, and both belonging to women with a variation of the name Shelamzion. The ending of the unknown mother's name, ywn (-ion) may suggest that she was also a Shelamzion, as noted in CIIP1 (307, no.286).

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.306-307, no.286.