An ossuary decorated in color on all its sides, bearing the inscriptions: 'Jacob son of Elazar' and 'Abba Yehosef the Proselyte.' First century CE.

This ossuary contained the remains of two individuals, whose names appear: one on the front of the ossuary and the other on its side.

The inscription 'Yehosef the Proselyte' (= Yosef who converted, i.e., adopted the Jewish faith) indicates the burial of a foreigner who had converted to Judaism, together with the bones of 'Jacob son of Elazar.'

Only one other ossuary decorated with color is known (no. 209 in Rahmani’s Corpus, discovered in a cave on Shmuel HaNavi Street in Jerusalem), and Rahmani notes that it is the only ossuary known to have been adorned with polychrome painting. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the ossuary before us and that ossuary were decorated by the same individual