Israel Antiquities Authority (institutional record)

This is the Israel Antiquities Authority's own custodial record for the Caiaphas Ossuary, describing the statutory authority's 1990 establishment, its excavation of the ossuary and its ongoing custody of the object. As the artifact's legal custodian and the government body responsible for archaeological finds in Israel, its record is the correct source for the ossuary's excavation context, chain of custody and official holding status. Its limit is that it is an institutional custodial record rather than an independent epigraphic study of the inscription's reading or its identification with the high priest Caiaphas, questions that need a dedicated scholarly source addressing the inscription directly alongside this custodial account.