Tombstone of Hana Daughter of Shmaryahu

Tombstone date: 
1895
Cemetery: 
Community: 
Code: 
A1.44
Made of: 
Sandstone
Epitaph style: 
Protruding letters
Relief style: 
Protruding
Directions: 
Facing west
Sizes: 
Height 151 cm, Width 67 cm, Thickness 20 cm
Epitaph text: 

[חנה בת שמריה]

חנה שלום פה

בין רגבי אדמה

תפארת נשים

שמה יזכר

רבבות שנים

ידיה לאביון

הנה שלחה

יב לחדש שבט

הה נאספה

תרנה

תנצבה

English translation of epitaph: 

Hana the piece is here

Between clods of the earth

The splendor of women

Her name will be remembered

Many years

Hands to the needy

She reached forth

12 of the month Shvat

She was taken

(5)655

May her soul will be bound up in the bond of life

Decoration program: 

Menorah, two lions, rosettes, foliate scrolls

Description: 

Acrostic: Hana bat [daughter of] Shmaryahi [Shmaryahu]

Good

Documented by the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1999 and by Project Jewish History in Galicia in 2009

Documentation date: 
1999
Documented by: 
Olga Aleksandrova
Documented by (old): 
Research date: 
2009
Researched by: