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This ritual spice container is thought to have been made in Frankfurt am Main. It is decorated to represent a four-story tower with brick walls. At its top, two short spires flank a central, taller…
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Artist Unknown
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Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1550
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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The kapporet is a short curtain, a valance, hung over the curtain of the Torah ark, and first began to appear in Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. The griffins and crowns that appear on…
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Artist Unknown
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Zawichost, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Zawichost, Poland)
Date:
1700
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Elkana Schatz Naumberg
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Kriegshaber, Holy Roman Empire
(Kriegshaber, Germany)
Date:
1724
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This shadai’a (dedicatory plaque) from the Romaniote community in Ioannina, Greece, is made of repoussé silver with an engraved Hebrew inscription. The central inscription is a rhymed text dedicated…
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Artist Unknown
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Ioannina, Ottoman Empire
(Ioannina, Greece)
Date:
1728
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Joseph Werbelowsky
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1902
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These two Torah pointers (yadayim) are from Galicia, one made of ivory and brass and the other of wood. Yadayim (hands) are used during public reading of the Torah, so that the reader may avoid…
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Late 19th–Early 20th Century
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This stand is 26 inches (66 cm) high and open at the top and bottom. It has four rows of windows and five feet, with five toes each, protruding near the bottom (three of the feet are visible in the…
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Ai, Land of Israel
(Khirbat at Tall, West Bank)
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Iron Age I, 12th–10th Century BCE
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This 21-inch-high (54 cm) stand was made in the ajouré (open-spaced) style and finished to look like bronze. In the bottom register, a nude female with raised arms (a fertility goddess?) touches the…
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Taanach, Land of Israel
(Tall Ti‘innik, West Bank)
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Iron Age IIA, 10th–9th Century BCE
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The chalice, covered with red slip (a thin mixture of red clay and water), consists of a tall, hollow stand and a separate bowl; both parts are decorated with downturned petals. Together they stand…
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Arad, Land of Israel
(Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age IIA (?)–IIB, 9th (?)–8th Century BCE