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What's the James, Ash, Ashuary?
An ocelary is a form of secondary burial. It occurs from about 70 B.C. to about 70 A.D. And 1000 of these have been found so far, 25% of them have inscriptions on them. Only one other ocelary has a brother mentioned and that's indeed what you have on this one. There was an immediate claim of inauthenticity, even that it was a fake. But after the seven year trial that took place in Israel, all charges were dropped - scholars today accept this as an authentic artifact. This is James who led the Christian church after Jesus is martyrdom until he himself is martyr, which is written about by Josephus.