EditorialZacharias looks at the Den Kandelaar menorah seen in a sigma of Zacharias (title on object), seven lamps, 'menorah', Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1683, paper, etching, h 143 mm ? w 84 mm.
EditorialLamp (menorah) from a synagogue-mid 19th. Limewood, gilded, metal-six candlesticks, Star of David in the center. From Bohemia. H: 101 cm Inv. 478.
EditorialJewish tomb with a menorah, the seven-armed chandelier. Necropolis of Hierapolis, Turkey. Tumuli, house-shaped tombs, and sarcophagi line both sides of a 2 km long road north of the town. The tombs span several centu-ries from Late Hellenistic (2nd BCE...
EditorialA full-page depiction of the Menorah surrounded by foliate scrolls inhabited by hybrids, at the end of the Pentateuch. Bible with masorah magna and parva. Italy, S. (Rome?) or Italy, N. (Bologna); last quarter of the 13th century. Source: Harley 5710, ...
EditorialAaron pouring oil into a Menorah. North French Miscellany. North France, c.1280. Vellum manuscript. Source: Add. 11639, f.114. Language: Hebrew.
EditorialAaron the Priest lighting the Menorah. North French Miscellany. North France, c.1280. Vellum manuscript. . Source: Add. 11639, f.522v. Language: Hebrew.
EditorialA memorial meeting for the Jewish victims in Dachau Concentration camp is held in front of a menorah and the Star of David, Jewish symbols. Dachau, West-Germany,1951.
EditorialA full-page depiction of the Menorah surrounded by foliate scrolls inhabited by hybrids, at the end of the Pentateuch. Bible with masorah magna and parva. Italy, S. (Rome?) or Italy, N. (Bologna); last quarter of the 13th century. Source: Harley 5710, ...
EditorialAaron pouring oil into a Menorah. North French Miscellany. North France, c.1280. Vellum manuscript. Source: Add. 11639, f.114. Language: Hebrew.
EditorialAaron the Priest lighting the Menorah. North French Miscellany. North France, c.1280. Vellum manuscript. . Source: Add. 11639, f.522v. Language: Hebrew.
EditorialA menorah, the seven-armed chandelier used during the Hanukkah Festival, celebrated in memory of the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabeean revolt in 164 BCE. Bronze coin issued under Antigonos II, last Hasmonean king, executed 37...
EditorialSeal ring with menorah design, bronze (4th CE); Byzantine medallions, glass and lead (2nd-3rd CE) Roman; Jewish teressa coin, lead (2nd CE) Roman.
EditorialLamp with Jewish Symbols, 350?450, Found Egypt, Earthenware; molded, H. 1 3/8 in., Ceramics, This is one of the few surviving lamps decorated with Jewish symbols. It displays a menorah flanked by an etrog (citron) and a lulav (palm branch), both indist...
EditorialStone lintels decorated with the Seven-Branched Menorah synagogue at Eshtemoa. Southern Hebron hill region. 3rd-4th century CE. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.
EditorialMenorah and Besomim (spice box). From a commentary book by Nicholas of Lyra (aka Nicolaus Lyranus, 1270-1349, author of the first printed commentary on the Bible and one of the foremost Franciscan theologians and influential exegetes (biblical interp...
EditorialA memorial meeting for the Jewish victims in Dachau Concentration camp is held in front of a menorah and the Star of David, Jewish symbols. Dachau, West-Germany,1951.
EditorialAaron lighting the Menorah, around 1280. Aaron, stretching on his toes and pouring oil into the Menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, with a Hebrew text below. From the " North French Miscellany" a Hebrew manuscript, written in Northern Fr...
EditorialMizrach (" East"), a decoration hung on one wall in the home to indicate the direction of prayer, i. e. east towards Jerusalem. From Southern Germany. Palmtree, menorah and ark of the covenant, tablets of the law. Hair and felt glued to glass...
EditorialMiniature Ark, or Torah shrine. A menorah and the tablets with the ten commandments appear on the doors. From Russia. Punchwork on sheet brass, 41 x 18 x 14 cm.
EditorialMizrach (" East"), a decoration hung on the walls of a home or synagogue, to indicate the direction of prayer, i. e. faciong east towards Jerusalem. From Poland, 1882. Between the two temple columns, a menorah and two Lions of Judah. Symmetri...
EditorialTwo Jewish medallions made of blue and yellow glass, showing menorah, shofar and lulav; ring with seal showing a menorah; and two lead medallions with menoroth 2nd-4th CE.
EditorialA menorah, the seven-armed chandelier used during the Hanukkah Festival, celebrated in memory of the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabeean revolt in 164 BCE. Bronze coin issued under Antigonos II, last Hasmonean king, executed 37...
EditorialTwo bronze coins. Left: coin of Antigonus (40-37 BCE), last Hasmonaean king of Judah, shows a menorah. Right, inscription in the wreath: Period of John Hyrcanus II (High Priest, 67-40 BCE). Size: 1.5 cm diameter. Reifenberg Collection.
EditorialDrawing of a menorah engraved into a lime floor upon a thick layer of plaster, in a house opposite the Temple of Jerusalem (around 40 BCE), burnt at the destruction of the 2nd Temple in 70 CE.
EditorialJewish tomb with a menorah, the seven-armed chandelier. Necropolis of Hierapolis, Turkey. Tumuli, house-shaped tombs, and sarcophagi line both sides of a 2 km long road north of the town. The tombs span several centu-ries from Late Hellenistic (2nd BCE...