Stone ID:

N05B

Location:

Wall of Memory

Grounded/Loose:

grounded

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

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Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

מאיר

Name English:

Meir

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Father Original:

שמריה

Father English:

Shmarya

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

04-Sivan-5688

Death Date:

1928-05-23*

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Primary Symbol:

crown

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
a man (who) walked flawlessly, advanced
in age, hospitable,
God-fearing, showed kindness
and acted benevolently to all people
and was charitable to the poor [h]
Meir
son of [h] Shmarya, died 4th
Sivan (in the) year (5)688 'by the small count'
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Stone Condition:

good, with traces of yellow paint in the epitaph border

Conservation:

Recovered from a walkway behind the house at vul. Adama Mitskevycha 8 in downtown Dobromyl in March 2016, then installed in a newly-constructed Wall of Memory at the Dobromyl Jewish cemetery in May and June 2016; see the web page About Dobromyl for more information.

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Recovery Date:

2016-03-12

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Other Notes:

[N2-3] בא בימים 'advanced in age' – see 'And King David was old, advanced in age' [1Kings 1:1].
[N4] The literal 'God-fearing' is a translation that is widely-accepted, meaning 'devout'. 'God' is inscribed 'ד rather than 'ה, the standard abbreviation for Hashem השם [The Name]. Appearing only in writing, 'ד represents an even-higher level of 'distancing' than that provided by 'ה, but is nevertheless voiced 'Hashem'.
[N9] The 3-letter abbreviation לפ'ק stands for לפרט קטן 'by the small count'. It often appears as a ligature, whereby these letters coalesce to form a single symbol. It confirms that the numeral 5 for 5000 is absent, it being obvious; a gravestone would have to predate the civil year 1239/40 for it to belong to the previous Jewish millennium.

See About Dobromyl for an index to headstone locations in the Wall of Memory.
Stone is recorded as Grounded because it is fixed in the Wall of Memory.

Last Revision:

2024-04-28

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