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Silver dish decorated on the inside with figures and landscapes.

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Purim Charity Plate

1590–1611

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Purim Letters

Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

Stone cube inscribed with cuneiform.

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Lot (puru), Assyria

Iron Age II, 9th Century BCE

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

Moses Provenzali

1560

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

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Sefer ḥayim ve-ḥesed (Book of Life and Righteousness): On Purim

Ḥayim Abulafia

1736

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Minhage de-kehilah ha-kedoshah Vormaiza (Customs of the Holy Community of Worms): On Purim

Yuspa Shamash

17th 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

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

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Megilat Mitsrayim (The Scroll of Egypt)

ca. 1524

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Meḥir yayin (The Price of Wine): On Esther

Moses Isserles

ca. 1556

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Megilat Esther (The Scroll of Esther) in Ottava Rima

Mordechai Dato

16th Century