Showing Results 1 - 2 of 2
Curaçao Cemetery, Gravestone Inscriptions
Public Access
Text
Italics indicate that the text was written in Hebrew, not Portuguese.

Contributor:

The Jewish Community of Curaçao

Places:

Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

Early 18th Century

Subjects:

Gravestones, Cemetery, Burial, Mourning, Death

Categories:

History, Inscriptions, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Gravestone of Mordecai Hezekiah Namias de Crasto (replica)
Public Access
Image
In reference to the deceased’s name, the central verse fragment on this monument reads “And Mordechai came before the king . . .” (Esther 8:1), and the top panel contains a low relief of a richly clad…

Places:

Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

1716

Subjects:

Death, Angels, demons & deities, Time, Ecology, Astronomy

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Decorative Arts
Tombstone of three cherubs and central Portuguese inscription, with engraving of wilted flower, skull, hourglass, and sun, with top panel of engraving of man riding in a procession through street and Hebrew text across the middle.