Stone ID:

LVN046

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

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fragment Group:

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Material:

sandstone

Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

(?)טובי

Name English:

Toviyah(?)

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

--

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Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

...outstanding in the Torah
...our teacher ...
... ... Toviyah(?)
... ... ... ...

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Stone Condition:

only a small fragment of the original headstone survives

Conservation:

This headstone and several others were discovered in a retaining wall behind a house at vul. Konotopska 4, southwest of the Lviv city center. During February 2020, a small volunteer event was organized by the Sholem Aleichem Jewish Cultural Society of Lviv and the Lviv Volunteer Center to recover the stones, which were then moved to the new Jewish cemetery adjacent to the Yanivskyi Cemetery northwest of the city center, from which they were likely originally stolen during the German occupation of World War II.
For more information, see the About Lviv page on this website and an article about the work on the website of Rohatyn Jewish Heritage.

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Recovery Date:

2020-02-04

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Other Notes:

On the broken fragment, all or part of the given name appears to be a diminutive of Tuvia/Toviyah – טובי(ה) – which could be rendered in English as Toby, a common diminutive of Tobias, the Greek form of the name Toviyah. However, it is possible that the remaining characters are the last letters of a longer (and different) name.

Last Revision:

2025-02-06

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