Necrópolis Judía

The necropolis contains some 346 tombs that were adapted to the topography of the terrain in which the burial ritual used was inhumation, in a single or double grave, sometimes with a niche or lateral covacha covered with slabs or Roman tégulas. The skeletal remains, which determined an early medieval period between 1000 and 1050, coincided with the dates of greatest splendour of Jewish Lucena and allowed us to extract relevant data about the way of life and funerary rituals of the Jewish community at this time. It contains the only Jewish tombstone found in a funerary structure in Andalusia and the second found in Lucena. The tombstone contained Hebrew characters, and its chronology could be dated to between the 8th and 9th centuries. The Jewish Necropolis of Lucena is the largest excavated necropolis in the Iberian Peninsula, and the first Jewish cemetery accessible to people with reduced mobility in Spain.