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‘Atiqot 80 (2015)
ISBN 2948-040X
Late Roman Funerary Customs in Light of the Grave Goods from the Cemetery on Sallah ed-Din Street, Jerusalem
(pp. 81–123)
Tamar Winter
Keywords: burial, grave goods, miniature objects, gender, workshop, bronze mirrors, bone female figurine, jewelry, pierced coin, pendant
The burial ground on Sallah ed-Din Street yielded many glass vessels and numerous gold, lead, copper/bronze, iron, glass, wood, shell and bone artifacts. The glass vessels and the various artifacts from the cemetery resemble finds from other Late Roman burials in Jerusalem and its vicinity. It can be inferred that some of the interred in the cemetery on Sallah ed-Din Street were foreigners, perhaps soldiers in the Roman army and their families.