Shimon’s Receipt - The BAS Library

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During a salvage excavation in the City of David, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered a fragmentary inscription dating to the first century BCE or CE. Written on the lid of an ossuary (burial box), the inscription might be a receipt connected to the ossuary itself or a sales record by the craftsman. The small inscription measures 3.5 by 2.5 inches and contains just seven lines of text, written in the cursive Aramaic script used in Judah during the first century.1 It lists a man named Shimon, one of the most common Jewish names of the Second Temple period, […]

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Endnotes

1. Esther Eshel and Nahshon Szanton, “A Second Temple Period Inscription on a Stone Ossuary Lid from the City of David, Jerusalem,” ‘Atiqot 110 (2023), pp. 83–88.