Ossuary Complete

ID: 196

Building type: tomb

Context:

funerary

Site:

Inscriptions:

301

Description:

The current whereabouts of the stone lid from an ossuary are unknown. Prior to its disappearance, the surviving fragments were kept at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem. The pieces were originally found in the vicinity of Khirbet Zif around 1962, and they may have been joined with adhesive sometime between 1967 and 1969. For further reference, see: CIIP IV 3847 Rahmani, L. Y. 1972. “A Bilingual Ossuary-Inscription from Khirbet Zif.” Israel Exploration Journal 22, no. 2/3, 113–16. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27925335. Yadin, Y., and L.Y. 1972. Rahmani. “A Note on the Bilingual Ossuary-Inscription from Khirbet Zif.” Israel Exploration Journal 22, no. 4 (1972): 235–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27925361.