Hard-limestone lid of the sarcophagus of “the son of the high-priest”

Site item id

20090

Collection name
IAA (Israel Antiquities Authority)
Item period
Early Roman
Exhibition location

Israel Museum

Lid of an elaborate hard-stone sarcophagus of "the son of the high-priest", bearing a Hebrew inscription: ‘… son of the High Priest.’ Discovered in excavations north of Jerusalem (between the Ramat Shlomo and Ramot neighborhoods). Early Roman period. It was not found in a specific archaeological context (recovered in secondary use). Early Roman period.

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