Stone ID:

S19B

Location:

Wall of Memory

Grounded/Loose:

grounded

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group:

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Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

שמואל

Name English:

Shmuel

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Father Original:

יוסף

Father English:

Yosef

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

18-Nisan-5682

Death Date:

1922-04-16*

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Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

[...] a man (of)
wisdom, 'a wonderful counselor' [h]
Shmuel
son of [h] Yosef the Levite, of blessed memory
died second day of Chol Ha'Moed Pesach
(in the) year (5)682 'by the small count'
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Stone Condition:

good despite fragmentation and cracks through the epitaph field, with some loss of text

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:

[N] This gravestone consists of two parts that were joined incorrectly despite the seemingly-reasonable fit that paired them when the Wall of Memory was constructed. The top part S19A is typical of a grave for a Cohen, with a פ נ abbreviation and nothing more. This part S19B refers to the deceased as having been a Levite הלוי. Cohen and Levite are mutually-exclusive. See the image in the gallery of the two gravestones together on the Wall.
[N2] The break-line between the two parts is visible just above the line of the illegible text that ends with the word איש.
[N3] As inscribed, תבינות may reflect a Hasidic pronunciation. תבונות is the usual spelling.
[N3] פלא יועץ 'a wonderful counselor' is a biblical phrase [Isaiah 6:5].
[N6] The second day of Chol Ha'Moed [the 'intervening days of'[ Pesach, in the Diaspora, always falls on the 18th Nisan.
[N7] 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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