Tombstone of Leah Lifshi Daughter of Eliezer Lipa

Tombstone date: 
1869
Cemetery: 
Community: 
Code: 
N050
Made of: 
Sandstone
Epitaph style: 
Protruding letters
Relief style: 
Protruding
Sizes: 
Height 170 cm; Width 61.5 cm; Thickness 20 cm
Epitaph text: 

שנת תרכט

ווי

להאי שופרא דבלה

בארעא [חבל על יופי זה שיקבר באדמה] אשה צניעה

וחסידה רכה בשנים

מ' לאה

ליפשי' בת המנוח

מו' אליעזר ליפא

ז"ל נפטרה יב'

מרחשוון

תנצבה

English translation of epitaph: 

The year (5)529

We sorrow for this beauty that will be buried in earth

Modest and pious woman

Young in years

Ms. Lea

Lifshi daughter of the late our teacher Eliezer Lipa

Of blessed memory and died 12 of Marheshvan

May her soul  be bound up in the bond of life

Decoration program: 

Two deer, flowers 

Description: 

good

Documented by the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1999 and by the Project Jewish history in Galicia and Bukovina in 2009.

Documentation date: 
1999
Documented by: 
Andrei Shpirt
Documented by (old): 
Research date: 
2009
Researched by: