Ossuary with the inscription “Shalom daughter of Yehuda from Hadid.” First century CE.

“Shalom” was one of the common names among Jewish women in the first century CE (similar names include Shlomtzion, Shalem, Salome, and Salō).

Hadid was the name of a settlement that existed in the first century CE (located east of today’s Ben-Gurion Airport), near Ben Shemen. In this area several burial caves with ossuaries were found — a phenomenon extremely rare outside Jerusalem and its immediate vicinity.

(The inscription was damaged by the Israel Antiquities Authority during an attempt to make a cast of it.)