Document in“Jewish Funerary Inscriptions”
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| Names | Abraham (ben Leon and Leah) |
| Names (Hebrew) | אברהם (בן לאון ולאה) |
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| Iconography description | Three upturned menorahs. |
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| Commentary | Possibly first located in the Cathedral but subsequently stolen in 1851, when, following an earthquake, the church was partly demolished. The inscription was found in the wall of a house in Vico I Corrado IV, nn. 11.13, together with PWPW ben Iovianu's epitaph, and following the earthquake in 1980 it was retreived in 1985. Why are the three menorahs inverted (Colafemmina's explanation is not convincing). Leonard says that in Roman catacombs putti hold inverted torches to symbolize death. See also another example of an inverted menorah in Noy vol. 2, p. 187 (#208). And why three? Has the second inscription been published? For the joint interrment of two siblings cf. the epitaph from Oria dedicated to two sisters (Colafemmina, Sefer Yuhasin [=Ahima'az], fig. 9). What is the date? |
