Stone ID:

LVN070

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

Location X/Y:

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Material:

sandstone

Color: pink Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

אברהם

Name English:

Avraham

Surname Original:

מעשעל

Surname English:

Meschel

Father Original:

אלכסנדר

Father English:

Alexander

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

15-Av-569?

Death Date:

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

blessing hands (Kohen)

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here is buried a man ...
[Avraham] Mesch[el]
[son of] Alexander the Ko[hen]
died on the 15th of Av [5]69?
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

ABRAHAM MESCHEL

Additional English:

ABRAHAM MESCHEL

Stone Condition:

the stone is quite worn and rough, but some portions of the epitaph can still be read

Conservation:

This headstone and more than a hundred others were recovered from under the asphalt paving of vul. Hanna Barvinok southwest of the Lviv city center over several days in June 2018, in a volunteer event organized by the Sholem Aleichem Jewish Cultural Society of Lviv and the Lviv Volunteer Center. The stones 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 Case Study 13 on the website A Guide to Jewish Cemetery Preservation in Western Ukraine.

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Recovery Date:

2018-06

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Last Revision:

2025-01-18

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