Tombstone with 13th-Century Hebrew Inscription Discovered in India
An ancient tombstone with an inscription in Hebrew, which was found in Ramanthapuram in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India, may shed light on a forgotten Jewish community in the country.
Thoufeek Zakriya, a researcher of Jewish history and a Hebrew calligrapher, was the first to decipher the inscription, saying that the tombstone dates back to 1224 or 1225.
“This means that it is older than the tombstone of Sara Bat Yisrael in Chennamangalam, in the state of Kerala, which is considered to be the oldest Hebrew tombstone ever identified in India,” Zakriya told the Indian website THE WEEK.
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