Ossuary with an Aramaic inscription for El'azar, mentioning Leah, from Jerusalem (JLM0165)
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Title
Ossuary with an Aramaic inscription for El'azar, mentioning Leah, from Jerusalem (JLM0165)
Description
Ossuary with an Aramaic inscription for El'azar son of Nittai, and possibly Leah, whose name appears to be written twice. From Jerusalem, dated to the 1st c. BCE/CE.
Source
Publisher
CIIP1: 242
Date
Language
Identifier
JLM0165
Sarcophagus or Ossuary Item Type Metadata
Decoration
Two lines of Aramaic inscription incised on the back side of the ossuary.
Language
Diplomatic
(a) לאה [.?] אלעזר בר נתי
(b) לאהִ
(b) לאהִ
Edition
(a) l'h. 'l`zr br nty
(b) l'h
(b) l'h
Translation
(a) Leah(?). El'azar son of Nittai
(b) Leah (?)
(b) Leah (?)
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
Role 2
Name 3
Role 3
Notes
Found in the same burial cave as JLM0166-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.271-272, no.242
Citation
“Ossuary with an Aramaic inscription for El'azar, mentioning Leah, from Jerusalem (JLM0165),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed September 8, 2024, https://www.wireproject.org/items/show/398.