Re: Help with Headstone Translation
fredelfruhman
Hello,
I have no idea whether this will help; my skills with photo enhancement are quite basic. I've picked out the date elements and reversed the images, which sometimes helps. You can see it here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArDsmPjxWZLFkleD6lyuhs8Xem3c You can zoom in on the image. You are definitely correct about the month being Sivan. The date of the month looks to me like it could be kaf-daled, 24. The year is definitely a challenge. It appears to me that the 4th character is a glyph, a combination of lamed-fey-kuf, which stands for lifrat katan, and often follows the year (to show that the leading '5' is omitted). This leaves 3 characters for the year, the first two of which appear to be taf-resh, putting the year into the 5600's. The third character would therefore either have to be a low number, 1-9, or a number that is divisible by 10. I realize that this is only slightly helpful, and hope others will be more successful than I.
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