How To Use Ossuary In A Sentence
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At Verdun, scene of the most murderous battle of the war, a massive ossuary was built to commemorate those 300,000 soldiers whose bodies had never been found or identified.
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In the case of the James ossuary, for example, it's alleged that the forgers took an authentically old box that was inscribed simply ‘James, son of Joseph.’
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Now according to some sources I've read, the bones are removed from the tomb and placed into the ossuary one year after the body was laid to rest.
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Experts say the ossuary may have held the bones of James of Jerusalem, who is referred to in the New Testament as a brother of Jesus.
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The practice is carried out under the auspices of the local Greek Orthodox priest: the remains being cleaned, bundled or boxed, labeled and then placed into a communal ossuary or storage building in the cemetery.
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It has three main parts: the low density burial area; an individual ossuary tower; and a cloistered ossuary and store for cinerary remains.
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The patina of the James Ossuary inscription was tested independently by IAA scientific committee members Yuval Goren (micromorphology) and Ayalon (mass spectrometry).
Geologists: Ossuary Patina Faked
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The ossuary contains the bones from six different people, including a male aged about sixty.
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From the first century B.C. to about 70 A.D., it was the burial custom of Jews to place their dead in a cave for a year, then retrieve the bones and put them in an ossuary.
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That could happen if - as is the case of the James ossuary - shallow carving was done over a deeply pitted surface.
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It has three main parts: the low density burial area with individual graves partly dug into the hillside; an individual ossuary tower; and a cloistered ossuary and store for cinerary remains.
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The site is made up of a burial area, an individual ossuary tower, a common ossuary / cinerary, and a service area.
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An 'ossuary' is a stone box in which bones previously laid out in rock-cut tombs, such as those in the Gospels, were placed after they were retrieved by relatives or followers.
Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update)
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Three to seven years after burial, the bones of the deceased are exhumed and placed in a family vault or a communal ossuary.
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All the various scratches on the ossuary are coated in the original patina and only the inscription and its immediate surroundings are coated with an artificial "patina" - like
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Other early rings whose dates appear trustworthy include the six that came from the 1636 ossuary at Ossossane.
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The triumphal arch and ossuary are very inferior to St. Thégonnec, but the calvary is a magnificent monument, unequalled in Brittany, richly sculptured and ornamented.
The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
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Jacob, Joseph, and Jesus were common enough names in first-century Israel, so there could easily have been a number of people whose genealogy matched that on the alleged ossuary of James.
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The ossuary was a white building with its lower windows blacked out.
The Warrior
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Three to seven years after burial, the bones of the deceased are exhumed and placed in a family vault or a communal ossuary.
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Eisenman also called the existence of Jesus "a very shaky thing" and said that the ossuary find was "too pat.
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The ossuary inside the sanctuary is square with a vaulted ceiling.
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An ossuary is a small stone receptacle built to hold the bones of family members.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
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In the case of the James ossuary, there would have indeed been room on the front, yet the scribe elected to carve the inscription on the back.
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André Lemaire, the Sorbonne epigrapher, continues to strongly defend the authenticity of the inscription and has offered detailed responses to the ossuary detractors.
The Jesus Dynasty
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Just hours before it was due to be unveiled to the media, the museum admitted that the ossuary had been seriously damaged in transit, creating cracks that would require its conservators' closest attention.
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He believes that there's a distinct possibility this is the real ossuary of James, although he admits that the current evidence would not hold up in court.
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We visited an ossuary at Kutna Hora (a small medieval village near Prague) which contained the remains of several thousand dedicated churchgoers.
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It turns out that the ossuary is from the correct era, archaeologists say, but the Aramaic inscription on its side - "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" - was a relatively recent addition.
Boing Boing: June 15, 2003 - June 21, 2003 Archives
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Still others maintained that even if genuine we would never be able to prove that the “James son of Joseph” of the ossuary was the brother of Jesus of Nazareth since all three names were common in the period.
The Jesus Dynasty
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Another interesting note about the ossuary is that if you want to take photos, you have to pay an additional fee.
Boing Boing: December 19, 2004 - December 25, 2004 Archives
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The family relationships contained on the ossuary helped experts uncover that the inscription very likely refers to the biblical James, brother of Jesus.
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But, according to the defendant's "take" on the story which also appears in Bob Simon's "Report on the Mystery Surrounding the James Ossuary", "the Ossuary" in question just sat unrecognized in a corner of his family apartment for years before a French epigrapher visited him and recognized the importance of the inscription.
Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update)
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The ossuary is not quite rectangular, like most burial boxes found so far, but trapezoid in shape.