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Heads up all! Due to a glitch with Tumblr/Yahoo I am unable to access my account here. Many regrets.

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Artifacts recovered from the graves of the Tarrega Jewish Cemetery during 2007, now in the permanent collection of Museu Comaracal de l’Urgell-Tarrega

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OK this is actually super important! If I’m reading this paper correctly (and this one in Catalan as well), these artifacts were found in an archaeological excavation of the cemetery of Jewish community of Tarrega, killed in an uprising in 1348. These amuletic beads were found in the grave of an child, approximately three years old, and would have been strung together on a necklace.

That means these can be definitively identified as medieval Jewish amulets, recovered in situ! How cool. And in particular, I believe they are some of the oldest (if not the oldest) visual evidence for the hand-shaped hamsa amulet among a Jewish community, and the only surviving medieval Jewish hamsas at that (the one on the left is bone, the one on the right is silver; the other amulets are jet, coral, and rock crystal). Definitely adding this to my files.

[beadwife]

So very interesting!

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