Tombstone of Hodes Daughter of Tzvi Arie

Tombstone date: 
1874
Cemetery: 
Community: 
Code: 
A2.9
Made of: 
Sandstone
Epitaph style: 
Sunken letters
Relief style: 
Protruding
Sizes: 
Height 155 cm; Width 61.5 cm; Thickness 19 cm
Epitaph text: 

תר לד

עיני

עיני ירדה מים

על פטירת אשה

צנועה כפה פרשה

לעני ומלחמה

נתנה לדל מרת

האדיס בת המ'

צבי אריה ז"ל

ונפטרה ד' תמוז

תנצבה

English translation of epitaph: 

(5)634

Water (tears) flow

From my eyes

For the death of modest

Woman who stretched out her hand to the poor and gave to the needy from her bread Mrs. Hodes daughter of our teacher Tzvi Arie of blessed memory

And died 4 of Tamuz

May her soul  be bound up in the bond of life

Decoration program: 

Menora flanked with two lions

Description: 

good

Documented by the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in 1999.

Documentation date: 
1999
Documented by: 
Boris Khaimovich
Documented by (old): 
Research date: 
2009
Researched by: