Caiaphas Name Inscribed on Bone Boxes

Ronny Reich, an Israeli archaeologist who has published extensively on Second Temple period Jerusalem, wrote this article for Biblical Archaeology Review reading and discussing the Aramaic inscriptions on a set of ossuaries, bone boxes, bearing the name Caiaphas, found in a Jerusalem tomb, and considering their possible identification with the high priest of that name known from the Gospels. The magazine is a semi popular publication aimed at a general educated readership rather than a peer reviewed academic journal, but it is edited with input from working archaeologists and is a standard venue where field reports reach a wider audience before or alongside fuller academic publication. Its limit is exactly that intermediate status, useful for the inscriptional reading and the discovery's context, while the specific identification with the Gospel high priest remains a plausible but not certain inference that the article itself treats as a possibility rather than a proof.