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Container in the shape of a four-story tower with doors and windows cut out.

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Spice Container

ca. 1550

Circular amulet with stones around perimeter and image of candelabrum with Hebrew text in center, surrounded by images of the zodiac.

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Amulet

ca. 1600

Glass beaker with painting of figures carrying enclosed stretcher.

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Beaker of the Polin Burial Society

1691

Short curtain embroidered with Hebrew text across the top with griffins and crowns.

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Torah Ark Valance

1700

Silver cup with engraving of biblical figures along base and astrological figures and decorative designs on lid.

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Silver Cup

Joachim Michael Salecker

1723

Cloth with embroidered columns on either side, pattern in the middle, and Hebrew text between two lions and crown on top.

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Torah Ark Curtain

Elkana Schatz Naumberg

1724

Plaque with Hebrew text and two chains hanging from the bottom.

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Shadai’a (Dedicatory Plaque)

1728

Pair of finials with crowns of bells on branches.

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Torah Finials

Pieter van Hoven

17th or 18th Century

Oil lamp with row of eight cups at the bottom carved with Hebrew inscription and animal heads, and sides resembling buildings.

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Hanukkah Lamp

1574

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The Vision of the Lampstand and Olive Trees

Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE

Photograph of wooden structure with two small columns of Hebrew writing with crown on top, and two sculped lions on either side.

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A Fragment of the Altar of a Synagogue in Mariampol

Valerii Rybarskii

1902

Ivory pointer in shape of hand on one end with three ivory and brass beads.

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Yadayim (Torah Pointers)

Late 19th–Early 20th Century