Simon Cohen

Read by Claude Opus 5 (own eyes, project OCR_SYSTEM_PROMPT, no Gemini) | legibility=poor confidence=low needs_expert_review=True | obstacles: dark grey-green marble ledger of the same workshop type as TRD_SEBAT_p1020685 beside it: about thirteen shallow lines cut in the bare stone, flat overhead sun, so the incisions read as tone changes rather than shadows; the surface is crossed by pale mineral veining that runs diagonally straight thro | Source: darkroom_batch_read_2026_08_09_taroudant | Photo: TRD_SEBAT_p1020686-web.jpg [Adjudication 09/08/2026, second independent reading of the same photograph] *** SURNAME DISPUTED, DO NOT TRUST 'COHEN' ***. Two independent readings of this photograph agree on the given name שמעון and disagree on the surname: one traced הכהן (4 glyphs, Cohen), the other איפרגאן (7 glyphs, Ifergan). Georges Sebat's index card says IFERGAN Shimon, and the neighbouring stone p1020685 is another Ifergan, which makes a family plot the simpler explanation. I re-cropped the name line at 11x plain and with autocontrast: the source is a 600x800 web resize of a shallow-cut dark slab crossed by mineral veining, and it will not settle a 4-versus-7 glyph question. NEITHER reading is safe. The record keeps COHEN only because that is what was applied; a re-photograph decides it.

Cimetière juif de Taroudant