It is a 2,000 - year - old burial ossuary ​ — a decorated limestone chest into which the bones of a deceased person were placed after the flesh had decomposed.
मृत व्यक्‍तीचे शरीर कुजल्यावर तिच्या अस्थी अशा अस्थिपात्रात ठेवल्या जायच्या.