A tombstone in four languages

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Under the Norman kings of Sicily, the island became a prosperous and influential Mediterranean superpower. The coexistence of western, Islamic and Byzantine cultures on Sicily created a multilingual state. In this video, Curator Dirk Booms talks about a funerary inscription from AD 1149 written in Judaeo-Arabic (Arabic written in Hebrew script) on top, Latin on the left, Greek on the right, and Arabic below. Discover more about multicultural Norman Sicily in our #SicilyExhibition. Sicily: culture and conquest 21 April – 14 August 2016 Find out more and book tickets: http://goo.gl/dpVBsG Sponsored by Julius Baer. In collaboration with Regione Siciliana. A tombstone in four languages. Sicily, AD 1149. Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Palermo. © Regione Siciliana.

Published 2016-08-01 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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