Ossuary with Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions for the children of Yehzaq from Jerusalem (JLM0009)

Ossuary with Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions for the children of Yehzaq from Jerusalem (JLM0009)

Limestone ossuary with two inscriptions in Hebrew (a) and Aramaic (b) for Mariam, Yo'ezer, and Shim'on, children of Yehzaq. Shelamzaion, identified as the wife of Yo'ezer, appears on an ossuary from the same tomb (JML0010). From Jerusalem, dated to the 1st c. BCE/CE.

CIIP1: 368

Limestone

JLM0009

H 33.5cm
W 63cm
D 28cm

Plain, with one-line inscriptions in (a) Hebrew on the rim, and in (b) Aramaic on the lid.

(a) mrym yw'zr sm 'wn bny yhzq bn qlwn mn bny ysb 'b
(b) mrym wyhw'zr wsm 'wn bny yhzq br qlwn mn bny yysb'b

(a) Mariam, Yo'ezer, Shim'on, children of Yehzaq the son of Kallon, from the sons of Yesh'ebab.
(b) Mariam and Yeho'ezer and Shim'on, children of Yehzaq the son of Kallon, the son of Yesh-ebab

CIIP1

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Burial complex for the Kallon family in the Katamon neighborhood, Jerusalem

Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem, inv. no. 1526

(1) Yesh'ebab is among the priestly courses from 1 Chronicles 24.

(2) The ossuary for Shelamzion, the wife of Yeho'ezer, was found in the same burial cave (JLM0010).

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. 388-390, no.368.