Jewish Names from 9th C Venosa

by Sara L. Uckelman
known in the SCA as Aryanhwy merch Catmael

© 2005, 2011Sara L. Uckelman; all rights reserved
last updated 10Jun11

This small collection of names of Jewish men and women from Venosa, in southern Italy, is from Skinner, Patricia, Health and medicine in early medieval southern Italy (Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1997). The names appear to have been modernized. Where known, I have listed the standard Hebrew form, transliterated using Sephardic pronunciation.

Feminine names

NameDateHebrew spelling
Dina830Dinah
Donnola9th C
Rebecca829Rivkah
Sara814Sarah

Masculine names

NameDateHebrew spelling
Abraham821Avraham
Ayyo9th C
Azriel838
Benjamin822?Binyamin
Bono829
Daniel825Daniel
David825David
Eliseo9th C
Geremia814Yirmiyahu
Joseph822?, 383Yosef
Julian830
Levi838Levi
Paregorio829
Sadoq9th CTzadok
Samuel838, 9th CShmuel
Teodoro829