Final Report of the Examining Committees for the Yehoash Inscription and James Ossuary

The Final Report of the Examining Committees for the Yehoash Inscription and James Ossuary, issued by the Israel Antiquities Authority in 2003, is the official conclusion of the government committees empanelled to examine both artifacts, finding that the second, later-added portion of the ossuary's inscription is a modern forgery, a position the IAA maintained through the subsequent criminal trial. Its authority rests on the IAA's statutory role as Israel's antiquities authority and on the technical examination its committees conducted. It concerns the inscription's authenticity specifically, not the ossuary object's own age, which independent analyses have treated as a separate question.