What they could not have anticipated was that the fortress itself would become a death trap.

The Hiding Hypothesis: What It Explains And What It Doesn’t

The scenario that Vagalinski and his team currently consider most plausible — that the young man climbed into the dolium seeking shelter from a fire during an attack — explains several elements of the evidence but leaves others uncertain.

What the hiding hypothesis explains:

The unusual location.

Human remains inside a city, inside a military structure, are explained by an emergency that prevented normal burial.

The person died there, and survivors were either unable to find the body under the collapsed structure or unaware that anyone had taken refuge in the jar.