Biblical Archaeology Review

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era), used by this author, are the alternate designations corresponding to B.C.E. and A.D. often used in scholarly literature.

This inscription should not be interpreted as the Hebrew greeting, shalom. Names, not greetings, are found on ossuaries.

In addition, on one ossuary and its lid the letter bet (b) was incised to guide the user in fitting the lid onto the box. The letter bet serves here as a mere mark. See above, where a mark was used for the same purpose on the ossuary with the Qafa’ inscription.

See Nitza Rosovsky, “A Thousand Years of History in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter,” BAR 18:03.

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Eta), used by this author, are the alternate designations corresponding to B.C. and A D. often used in scholarly literature.

On seals of people mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, see Tsvi Schneider, “Six Biblical Signatures—Seals and Seal Impressions of Six Biblical Personages Recovered,” BAR 17:04.

See Rachel Hachlili, “Ancient Burial Customs Preserved in Jericho Hills,” BAR 05:04.

Y. Shaked assisted both in the excavation and in the administration. The surveyor was A. Hajian. D. Weiss and G. Suleimani also participated. The first report of the excavation appeared in Zvi Greenhut, “Jerusalem—East Talpiot (Peace Forest),” Archaeological News 97 (1992), pp. 71–72 (in Hebrew). For the final report, see Greenhut, “The Caiaphas Tomb in North Talpiot, Jerusalem,” Atiqot 21 (1992).

Nahal is the Hebrew word for a dry river bed that flows occasionally in the winter rainy months; the Arabic is wadi.