Le filtrage de la lumière du soleil à travers le feuillage dense illumine l'inscription hébraïque relevée et la décoration sculpturale sur l'une des anciennes pierres à tête branlées entassées dans le vieux cimetière juif de Josefov, le quartier juif de Prague, capitale de la Tchéquie / République tchèque, qui a fermé à de nouvelles séniums en 1787. Environ 12,000 pierres de tête sont entassées dans l'espace clos du centre-ville, avec environ 100,000 habitants de l'ancien ghetto qui se trouvent en 12 couches au-dessous d'eux. La pierre tombale la plus ancienne date de 1439.

• Contributeur: Terence Kerr / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2FKBY6M
• Taille du fichier: 28,7 MB (2,1 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 2592 x 3872 px | 21,9 x 32,8 cm | 8,6 x 12,9 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 22 juillet 2006
• Lieu: Old Jewish Cemetery, Jewish Quarter or Josefov, Prague, Czechia / Czech Republic.

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Prague, Czechia / Czech Republic: late afternoon sunlight filtering through dense foliage illuminates the raised Hebrew inscription and sculptural decoration on one of the ancient gabled headstones crammed into the Old Jewish Cemetery in the Czech capital’s Jewish Quarter or Josefov, which was used for nearly 350 years up to 1787. The earliest gravestone in Europe’s second oldest Jewish cemetery is that of rabbi and liturgical poet Avigdor Kara, who died in 1439. Early gravestones are plain apart from their inscriptions, but from the 16th century, the dead were characterised by symbols relating to their name, character or profession, such as pairs of blessing hands, wine grapes or animals such as lions, bears, deer and wolves. A harp or violin indicated a musician, a lancet a physician, a calf a butcher and a pair of scissors a tailor. The Old Jewish Cemetery is among the world’s oldest surviving Jewish burial grounds. It replaced a so-called “Jewish Garden” closed in 1478. By 1787, it had long outgrown its city centre space, with the ground level raised well above surrounding streets and the soil held in place by retaining walls. Beneath the 12, 000 gravestones visible today are at least 100, 000 burials, with the bodies laid up to 12 layers deep. As these levels increased, some ancient headstones were raised to the new surface, so those visible now may commemorate people buried deep underground. Important Jewish figures interred here include scholar, teacher and writer Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezulel (died 1609), Mordecai Maisel (1601), developer of the Prague Jewish Town and David Gans (1613), Renaissance scholar, historian, mathematician and astronomer. D0214.A2551

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