Spice box (besamim)
ante 1942
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
Phylactery
Part of the collection: Phylacteries in the collection of the Polin Museum
Popularization note
PhilacteriesTwo boxes, one of them decorated with letters and lines. Attached to the boxes are thongs with a knot, the loops of which pass through the holes; one thong runs from the knot as a uniform band, the other as two lines of similar length. One of the letters is the Hebrew letter 'shin', meaning tefillin for the head.
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Information about the object
Information about this object
Author / creator
unknown
Dimensions
cały obiekt: height: 4 cm, width: 4,3 cm
Technique
sewing
Material
parchment, leather
Creation time / dating
ante 1939
Creation / finding place
powstanie: unknown
Owner
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Identification number
MPOLIN-M124/1
Location / status
object is not displayed now
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