Hellenistic Burial Tomb from Maresha, Israel

In 1902, elaborately painted tombs, dating back to sometime between the third and second centuries BCE, were found 30 Miles southwest of Jerusalem.  An ​inscription identifies the site as Maresha.

Tel Maresha is the tel or archaeological mound of the biblical Iron Age city of Maresha, later known by its Hellenised name Marisa.

Maresha is mentioned in the Book of Josua 15:21 and 44.

“The towns at the far end of the tribe of Judah, near the border of Edom, in the Negev, were: ...Keilah, Achzib, and Maresha: Nine towns, with their villages.”