Reply #49: The name "Mariamne" is apparently known through the "Acts of Philip" [View All]

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However, she is identified there as Philip's brother and not as Mary Magdalene:

The Acts of Philip ...

About the time when the Emperor Trajan received the government of the Romans, after Simon the son of Clopas, who was bishop of Jerusalem, had suffered martyrdom in the eighth year of his reign, being the second bishop of the church there after James who bore the name of brother of the Lord, Philip the apostle .. preached .. the Gospel ... And Philip's sister Mariamme, sitting in the entry of the house of Stachys, addressed herself to those coming ...

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0818.htm

And whether this exceptionally tenuous connection even matters is open to question:

A CORRECTED READING OF OSSUARIES CJO 701 and CJO 108*
By Stephen J. Pfann, Ph.D.

SUMMARY POINTS OF DISCUSSION:
.. The original transcription .. was incorrect. The inscription does not read “Mariamene the Master”nor does the name Mariamene or Mariamne appear on the ossuary at all. The inscription reflects the writing of two distinct scribes who wrote in different forms of the Greek script. The correct reading of the inscription is “Mariame and Mara,” based on parallels from contemporary inscriptions and documents. The ossuary thus contained the bones of at least two different women, interred at two separate times, one named Mariame and the other Mara

http://www.uhl.ac/JudeanTombsAndOssuaries.html