Ossuary with a bilingual inscription for Shalom from Jerusalem (JLM0189)

Ossuary with a bilingual inscription for Shalom from Jerusalem (JLM0189)

Limestone ossuary with rosettes and two inscriptions in Greek and Hebrew from Shalom, identified in both as the daughter of Ariston. . Ariston's ossuary was also found in the same complex (CIIP1: 326-327, no.304), and the inscription there identifies him as a proselyte originally from Apamea. Αnother ossuary, of Selampsin/Shelamzaio, daughter of Ariston (JLM0190), was found in the same complex, and probably belongs to her sister. From Jerusalem, dated to the 1st c. BCE/CE.

CIIP1: 308

Limestone

JLM0189

H 27cm
W 52cm
D 24cm

Two rosettes within a zigzag frame on facade. Inscriptions incised (a) on facade across the left rosette, and (b) on the lid.

(a) ΣΑΛΩΝΑΡΙΣΤΩΝ
שִלומבת
ארסטן
(b) ΣΑΛΩΑΡΙΤΩΝ

(a) Σαλω'μ' Αριστων(ος) | šlwm bt | ʾrsṭn
(b) Σαλω(μ) Αρι<σ>τωνος

(a) Shalom (daughter) of Ariston. Shalom daughter of Ariston.
(b) Shalom (daughter) of Ariston.

CIIP1

CIIP1

CIIP1

Akeldama Caves, Kidron Valley (cave 3, chamber D, ossuary 35)

Beth Shemesh, IAA inv. no. 1993-1708 & 1993-1707

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.331, no.308.