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Rectangular white stone tablet with six lines of Hebrew relief text.

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Tombstone (Córdoba, Spain)

845

Photo of a weathered, broken gravestone in a cemetery, with seven delineated spaces, four of which contain Hebrew inscriptions.

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Tombstone (Worms, Rhineland)

1040–1080

Damaged parchment fragment with faded Hebrew script in gold, red, and black with decorations and contrasting outlines.

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Ketubah (Fustāt, Egypt)

1170–1195

Damaged manuscript fragment with colorful Hebrew text and geometric, floral, and micrographic decorations, including nested six-pointed stars.

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Ketubah (Fustāt, Egypt)

Late 12th Century

Facing pages of a damaged Hebrew manuscript with paragraphs of large, vocalized script alternating with paragraphs of small, unvocalized script.

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Arabic Translation of the Mishnah

10th or 11th Century

Damaged parchment with stains and holes, containing vowelless Hebrew script, one small fragment of which is crossed out and another annotated with letters.

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Letter to Ephraim ben Shemariah

Joseph ha-Kohen ben Solomon Ga’on

ca. 980–ca. 1060

Photo of both sides of a roughly rectangular stone slab with a few lines of rough Hebrew inscribed on each side.

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Tombstone (Bari, Italy)

First Half of the 9th Century

Rectangular brick tablet with six lines of carved Hebrew script and a broken upper-left corner.

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Brick Epitaph Fragment (Toledo)

10th or 11th Century

Damaged, stained parchment with vowelless Hebrew script, larger and decorated with floral elements at the top and in an irregular arrangement at the bottom, with two large and several small holes.

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Ketubah (Fustāt, Egypt)

Meshūllam ben David and Sutūt bint Ṭahōr

1102

Damaged parchment with several large holes and tears and Hebrew script, largely in a paragraph with three lines of staggered words at the top, the first of which has floral decorations on each.

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Ketubah (Fustāt, Egypt)

1124

Irregular vertical manuscript with handwritten vowelless Hebrew, occasionally underlined or boxed, and a section of diagrams or symbols in which there is one large hole.

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Amulet for Sāda bat Samar

10th to 12th Century

Damaged, irregular manuscript fragment with paragraphs of vowelless Hebrew script, obscured by a torn edge, and, at the other torn edge, a glimpse of a small six-pointed star and more script, some of which is underlined or boxed.

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Mezuzah with Magical Additions

11th or 12th Century