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ID 54
Sex None
Provenance Taranto
Inscription type Epitaph
Iconography Type Menorah, Shofar
Iconography description
Probably the base of a menorah and a stylized shofar (?) surrounded by the Latin inscription
Material Stone (soft limestone)
Language Hebrew, Latin
Storage location Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Publication Noy 1993, pp. 167-168; Colafemmina 2005, pp. 37-38
Facsimile Colafemmina, Gli Ebrei a Taranto, tavv. XXVI, XXVII
Commentary
Unreadable traces of a Hebrew inscription on one face of the slab, Latin and menorah symbol on the other. If the Latin inscription should be reconstructed as Colafemmina suggested, it would disturb the symmetrical arrangement (see Noy).
IN VI(perhaps: memoria iusti in vitam)