Image: Inscription de Narbonne

Description: A photograph of a funerary stele from the article "France" in the 1901-1906 The Jewish Encyclopedia, captioned "Earliest Known Inscription Relating to the Jews of France, Dated Narbonne, 689". Based on the date it would have been created in the Visigothic Kingdom.In other sources it is described as a "Christian inscription"[1] and as a Jewish inscription dated with the local calendar—the regnal year of King Egica—rather than the Hebrew calendar[2].↑ Clauss, Manfred. EDCS-28300234. Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby. Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Retrieved on 2020-09-26. (Click on search link and enter above EDCS-ID.) ↑ "Les noms des juifs à Paris (Ⅻᵉ-ⅩⅣᵉ siècle)" in (3 May 2018) Noms de lieux, noms de personnes: la question des sources DOI: 10.4000/books.pan.951. ISBN: 9791036512308. OCLC: 1193020908. "Mais la date du décès est calculée en fonction du calendrier local, ici celui du règne du roi Egica, et non en fonction du calendrier juif comme au bas Moyen Âge."
Title: Funerary Stele of Justus, Matrona and Dulciorellalabel QS:Len,"Funerary Stele of Justus, Matrona and Dulciorella" label QS:Lfr,"Stèle funéraire de Justus, Matrona et Dulciorella"
Credit: Unknown photographer; found in Broydé, Isaac Luria; et al. (1906). "France". In Funk, Isaac Kaufmann; Singer, Isidore; Vizetelly, Frank Horace (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Ⅴ. New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Company. p. 445. hdl:2027/mdp.39015064245445. OCLC 61956716. Also documented in JIWE, I, 189 (D. Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe, Cambridge, 1993).
Author: Joseph Jacobs, Israel Lévi, Executive Committee of the Editorial Board of the Jewish Encyclopedia. Isaac Luria Broydé.
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