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This images are just an example of the very few tombstones and fragments found at different interventions on the site.
Some are exhibited in diverse rooms of the Museum of History of the City of Barcelona, while most are in storage as part of the Museum's stock.

 

 

804

XI century

 

Translation

Samuel son of Rabí Halabu ... in the year 804 ...

 

Fragment of an XIth century tombstone from the Jewish Cemetery on Montjuïc.
Found November 12, 1874.

It is dated year 4804 of the Hebrew calendar, corresponding to the XI century,
1043-1044 of the common era.

 

Source

Middle Agges Funerary Hebrew Inscriptions in Spain
J. Casanovas Miró

Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevi. Series Hebraica. 4.1
Barcelona, Cataluña (2004)

lapida s+

XII century

 

Translation
Is buried under this tombstone ...
son of the honorable grand sage Rabí Moshé Yerushalmi ...

 

Fragment of an XIIth century tombstone from the Jewish Cemetery on Montjuïc.
Probably found between 1850 and 1880.

 

Source

Middle Agges Funerary Hebrew Inscriptions in Spain
J. Casanovas Miró

Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevi. Series Hebraica. 4.1 Barcelona,

Cataluña (2004)

lapida siglo XII

XIV century

 

Translation
This is the grave of a pious and honest woman, Miriam,
wife of Rabí Isaac ha Levi, blessed be the memory of the just.
Died in the month of Kislev of the year 4990

 

Fragment of an XIIth century tombstone from the Jewish Cemetery on Montjuïc.
Found during the excavation campaign in 2001.

 

Source

New approach to the chronology of the Jewish cemetery on Montjuïc (Barcelona)

Xavier Maese i Fidalgo. Jordi Casanovas i Miró

Tamid (Barcelona), 4 (2002-2003), IEC, Societat Catalana d'Estudis Hebraics

Of those fragments reutilized as building material, a few can be seen

in some city buildings, most are hard to read and interpret.

(Photo: Lieutenant's Palace)