- Measurements and Technique: 64 x 28.5 x 36 cm. Plain.
- Provenance: er-Ram.
- Description: Low feet. Secondary outlet for water on one small side.
- Lid: Missing[1].
- Inscription: On the upper part of one of the small sides, beginning 6 cm. Below the rim. Two possible readings have been discussed so far:
1. ... 'Mar, son of Robna' (Dalman, 1914) or 'Ruben' (Klein).
2. ... 'Meir, Son of David, Son of A...' (Yellin).
- Bibliography: Dalman, 1914, pp. 144-145, and PI. XLI:28; Yellin, p. 59; Klein, p. 57, No. 169, CIJ II, p. 231, No. 1193.

Comments: Inventory No. VI:4a. Dalman (1914, p. 145) thought that the inscription
was a forgery, prepared in order to raise the price of the otherwise plain ossuary[2].
Contrary to this evaluation in 1914, in the inventory he noted 'Ornamente',
obviously an error. Klein concurred with him on his evaluation of the inscription as
a forgery, whereas Yellin treated it as authentic, as did Frey in CIJ.
The deciphering of the inscription is problematic, and we doubt the likelihood of
the two proposals offered in the literature. We content ourselves with a new, more
precise drawing, and a possible reading:
... 'Arbagla/Arbugla, son of ..' (followed by two additional letters).
We do not know any parallel to this name; the only one resembling it in Greek is, Αρβουσκλα, but this is also a very rare name[3].

[1] In the inventory Dalman reported: 'Ossuarium mit Deckel'.
[2] He noted (Dalman, 1914, p. 145): 'man hat doch wohl dem sonst schmucklosen Ossuarium durch Einkratzung der Inschrift höheren Wert verleihen wollen'.
[3] The only evidence we found is LGPN II, p. 49 (second century B.C.E.).

Zitat aus: Fritz/Deines, Catalogue of the Jewish Ossuaries in the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology, IEJ 49, 1999, 222-241.

Ossuary No. 2 drawing of inscriptionOssuary No. 2 front

Ossuary No. 2 inscription on short side