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Beginning of scroll with Hebrew text arranged in columned archways and decorated figures above and beside each column.

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Responsum: On Printed Megilot (Scrolls of) Esther

1560

Stone cube inscribed with cuneiform.

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Lot (puru), Assyria

Iron Age II, 9th Century BCE

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Sreyfe-lid (The Song about the Burning)

1513

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Megilat Esther (The Scroll of Esther) in Ottava Rima

16th Century

Print with small Hebrew text arranged in the shape of a columned building, with a ribbon of text and two fish in the center.

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Purim Page (Mi-she-nikhnas adar)

Early 20th Century

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The Prayer of Queen Esther

17th Century

Page of printed Hebrew text surrounded by arches and decorative flowers and foliage, and town scenes in bottom register.

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Esther Scroll

1746

Page of Hebrew text surrounded by decorative border with four well-dressed figures on top.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

1618

Painting in three horizontal panels, featuring a king on throne, a queen, several figures on horseback, and a hanging of a man on the bottom right.

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Purim Story Painting

1893

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Queen Esther

1917

Woodcut illustration of six standing figures, three of whom are wearing masks and holding instruments, with Yiddish text above and below.

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Illustrations from Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs)

1600/1

Beginning of scroll with Hebrew text arranged in columned archways and decorated figures above and beside each column.

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Esther Scroll

1640