[eastsider]

Lemaire dates the object to 63 A.D.

Rather precise. Wonder how Lemaire arrived at that date?

[STD]

The date or the current Roman ruler is usually noted somewhere on these boxes and on coins.

[NYer]

Wonder how Lemaire arrived at that date?

The first century Jewish historian Josephus recorded that ``the brother of Jesus the so-called Christ, James by name,'' was stoned to death as a Jewish heretic in A.D. 62. If his bones were placed in an ossuary that would have occurred the following year, dating the inscription around A.D. 63.