An elaborate ossuary, 1st century CE. On the façade of the ossuary are two ornate geometric decorations and a finely crafted Ionic column with a capital and a tall, multi-tiered base between them. The ossuary is reported to have been discovered north- east of Mount Scopus.

This form of decoration is rare and is known from only two other ossuaries in the collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority: the first, the ossuary of king Mattathias Antigonus, the last Hasmonean king, discovered in the burial cave of Abba (son of the priest Eleazar, son of Aaron the Great) (ossuary no. 350 in L. Y. Rahmani’s catalogue of ossuaries); and the second (no. 328 in the catalogue), discovered in the Valley of the Cross, Jerusalem.

It is evident that all three ossuaries were made by the same artisan.