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Square limestone altar with horns at four upper corners and recessed band below offering surface.

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Small Limestone Altar from Megiddo

Iron Age IIA, 10th–9th Century BCE

Square ceramic altar with recessed offering surface decorated with crosshatching and circles and horns on four upper corners.

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Small Ceramic Altar from Hazor

Iron Age IIA, 10th Century BCE

Basin with Hebrew inscription on rim

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Inscribed Limestone Basin

Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE

Pair of finials with balls on top.

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Torah Finials (Kerala)

1721

Manuscript scroll page with Hebrew text and decorated border with illustrations of cherubs, faces, animals, ribbons, and flowers.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

Andrea Marelli

1573

Scroll manuscript page with Hebrew text in four columns, with illustrations on top of figures seated talking to each other, working by a tree, and walking; the middle sections feature ladders and people working on trees; the bottom features elephants and rhinoceroses.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

ca. 1630

Cloth embroidered with floral border, and four central panels, the top two with pitchers, vines, and flowers, and the bottom two with trees and ribbons with Hebrew text.

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Torah Cover (?)

ca. 1600

Silver pitcher with floral shapes and inscribed designs, and shield on lid with Hebrew inscription.

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Burial Society Pitcher and Shield

ca. 1650|1732

Pair of finials with decoration and chains hanging down.

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Torah Finials (Corfu)

A.Z.

Late 17th–Early 18th Century

Cloth with embroidered image of tablets in clouds above mountain and city.

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Torah Ark Curtain (Venice)

Simḥah

1680/1

Cloth embroidered with floral border, Hebrew text across the top, and repeating motif in center.

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Torah Ark Curtain (Prague)

Temerl bat Hirsch Perlhefter

1685/6

Cylindrical case with small ball on top.

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Torah Case (Kaifeng)

17th or 18th Century