Stone ID:

LVN059

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group:

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Material:

sandstone

Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

אסתר

Name English:

Esther

Surname Original:

Surname English:

Father Original:

Father English:

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

--

Death Date:

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Primary Symbol:

3-arm candelabrum

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

beloved and dear in her life
... wife ...
but...
... Esther ...

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Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

Additional English:

Stone Condition:

The stone is broken and only part of the epitaph remains, but the visible text is clear.

Conservation:

This headstone and more than a dozen others were discovered in use as paving and staircase stones in a courtyard at Halytska Square 15 in the Lviv city center in autumn 2017. The stones were recovered by the Sholem Aleichem Jewish Cultural Society of Lviv and the Lviv Volunteer Center and 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 a blog post on the Vanished World website.

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Recovery Date:

2017-11-24

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Other Notes:

Photo(s) by Christian Herrmann, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Last Revision:

2025-01-27

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