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Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
Torah Reading Plaque – Tablets of the Law – Iraqi Kurdistan – 1939
Opening: $200
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Torah reading plaque. Iraqi Kurdistan, (Amadiya [Amedi]?), 5699 [1939].
Silver, cut, soldered, and engraved.
Designed as Tablets of the Law, engraved with Ten Commandments, and surmounted with ornaments in silver thread and granulation, with suspension hole. Engraved Hebrew dedicatory inscription on back: "This plaque is dedicated to the synagogue by Hananiyah son of Varda, 5699 [1939]...".
Length: 13 cm. Width: 9 cm.
Reference: Jews of Kurdistan: Lifestyle, Tradition, and Art, pp. 254-55.
Silver, cut, soldered, and engraved.
Designed as Tablets of the Law, engraved with Ten Commandments, and surmounted with ornaments in silver thread and granulation, with suspension hole. Engraved Hebrew dedicatory inscription on back: "This plaque is dedicated to the synagogue by Hananiyah son of Varda, 5699 [1939]...".
Length: 13 cm. Width: 9 cm.
Reference: Jews of Kurdistan: Lifestyle, Tradition, and Art, pp. 254-55.
Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Kurdistan / Mountain Jews and the Caucasus
Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Kurdistan / Mountain Jews and the Caucasus