Obj. ID: 32129
Jewish Funerary Art Tombstone of David son of Moshe Ha-Levi in Ptuj, Slovenia, 1303
According to Baumgarten (see bibliography), the tombstone was found in water and in the early 20th century stood next to a tower. The text of epitaph was published for the first time in 1903 (Baumgarten), the photographs of the tombstone appeared in Jüdisches Lexikon, 3:486.
The tombstone is a stela with a graded rectangular base and a protruding frame. The tombstone bears an inscription in Hebrew with square filled letters. Our reading differs from that of Baumgarten and Herzog, but follows that of Kober (see bibliography):
האבן הזאת
אשר הוקם
לראש ר' דוד
בר' משה ע' [=עליו השלום]
שהלך לע' [probably a mistake of the cutter]
לעולמו ביו' [=ביום]
א' כ' ימים
לירח כסליו
א'נ'ח'מ ה' [=64]
לפרט ת'נ'צ'ב'ה' [=תהיה נשמתו צרורה בצרור החים]
א'א'א'ס [=אמן אמן אמן סלע]
This stone / was erected / to the head [of the community], rabbi David / son of rabbi Moshe / that passed away / away on / Sunday, the 20th day /of the month of Kislev / in the year [50]64 [= 30 November, 1303] / May his soul be bound in the bundle of life / Amen, amen, amen, selah.
14 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Premk, Janez and Mihaela Hudelia. Jewish Heritage: A Guidebook to Slovenia (Ljubljana: JAS, 2014)
Baumgarten, Emanuel. Die Juden in Steiermark: Eine historische Skizze. Wien: Löwit, 1903. P. 61.
Herzog, David. “Jüdische Grabsteine und Urkunden aus der Steiermark.” Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums 80, no. 1 (1936): 63–64.
Jüdisches Lexikon. Ein enzyklopädisches Handbuch des jüdischen Wissens. Vol. 3. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1928. Illustration on page 486.
Kober, Adolf. “Jewish Monuments of the Middle Ages in Germany: One Hundred and Ten Tombstone Inscriptions from Speyer, Cologne, Nuremberg and Worms (1085-c. 1428).” Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 14 (1944): 149–220 (here p. 176).
Harck, Ole. Archäologische Studien zum Judentum in der europäischen Antike und dem mitteleuropäischen Mittelalter. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2014. P. 567.
Premk, Janez (avtor, prevajalec, fotograf). Po sledeh judovske dediščine na Slovenskem : razstava, Sinagoga Maribor 6. 9.-25. 10. 2009 = Tracing jewish heritage in Slovenia. [COBISS.SI-ID 64989026]