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Tombstone of an unknown person
Tombstone date:
1869
Cemetery:
Community:
Code:
D094
Made of:
Sandstone
Epitaph style:
Sunken letters
Relief style:
Protruding
Directions:
Facing west
Sizes:
Height 142 cm, Width 56 cm, Thickness 18 cm
Epitaph text:
כתר תורה
וכתר שם
טוב תרכט
עיני
עיני יורדה מים
על דאבדין ולא
משתכחין הוא
פטירת איש
תם וישר עשה
צדקה בכל עת
מו' יצחק בהמנ'[ןח]
מו' דוד ז"ל
נפטר ד' שבט
תנצבה
English translation of epitaph:
Crown of Torah
And crown of good name
(5)629
Water flow
From my eyes
For the loss and not
Forgetting the
Death of perfect and
Upright man who did
Charity all the time
Our teacher Yitzhak son of the late
Our teacher David of blessed memory
Died 4 of Shvat
May his soul be bound up in the bond of life
Decoration program:
Scrolls
Description:
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:
Marina Bruk
Documented by (old):
Research date:
2009
Researched by:
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