 However, the regular type of burial during the Early Roman period (c. 63 BCE-70 CE), used by the non-elite population, was done in trenches.Trench burials were quite varied, with one or two bodies, either in primary or secondary burial, with even a case of an infant buried in a jar coming to light.If such a simple grave was hewn into the rock, archaeologists speak of a cist tomb (Keddie 2019, p.227).