Ossuary with Aramaic inscription for Pinhas, mentioning his mother, from Jerusalem (JLM0116)

Ossuary with Aramaic inscription for Pinhas, mentioning his mother, from Jerusalem (JLM0116)

Limestone ossuary with rosettes, palm tree, and geometric decoration, with an Aramaic inscription for Pinhas, son of Yosef, and mentioning either the tomb or burial of his mother, from Jerusalem, dated to the 1st c. BCE/CE.

CIIP1: 83

Limestone

JLM0116

H 30cm
W 59cm
D 26cm

A palm tree flanked by two six-petaled rosettes on the facade, with zigzag frames; short right side also decorated with a six-petaled rosette. The ossuary contains three inscriptions: on the facade (a), on the right side (b), and on the right edge of the facade (c). Flat lid.

Bones of a man (identified with Pinhas)

(a) פינחס בר יוסף
(b) פינחס בר יוסף קבר אמ ה
(c) כבלין

(a) pynḥs br ywsp
(b) pynḥs br ywsp qbr ʾmh
(c) kblyn

(a) Pinhas the son of Yosef.
(b) Pinhas the son of Yosef.
His mother's tomb.
(c) KBLYN

Burial cave on the western slope of Mount Scopus

Beth Shemesh IAA inv. no. 1975-672

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. 125-126, no.83