It is a 2,000-year-old burial ossuary - a decorated limestone chest into which the bones of a deceased person were placed after the flesh had decomposed.
Libhoksi lamathambo elineminyaka ezi-2 000 - ibhokseli elenziwe ngelitje le-lime gade kufakwa kilo amathambo womuntu ohlongakeleko ngemva kobana inyamakhe idlekile.