5381 Jehohanan ossuary

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5381 Jehohanan ossuary

5381. Stone ossuary found in a Jewish tomb in Givat HaMivtar near Jerusalem. The Hebrew inscription on the ossuary reads: ‘Jehohanan the son of Hgqwl’ and dates to the first C. AD. In the ossuary were the skeletal remains of a man in his twenties who has been crucified, according to the heel bone which was pierced by an iron nail.

Photograph by Zev Radovan

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