Phylactery
Pendant
29-96-229
From: North Africa
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 29-96-229 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Hebrew |
| Provenience | North Africa |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leather |
| Description | Phylactery with 3 circular pendants, 2 rectangular pendants of light brown leather attached to two pieces of long twisted brown leather tied at the ends. The central circular pendant is empty, while remaining pendants appear to contain something. The twisted leather is broken at one place. Square pendants are inscribed on back with 3 lines. |
| Length | 2.5 cm |
| Width | 3 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
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