- Object Name:
- Tefillin Bag
- Place Made:
- Morocco
- Date:
- 20th century
- Medium:
- Cotton satin: embroidered with metallic ribbon; cotton
- Dimensions:
- 8 7/16 × 12 in. (21.5 × 30.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Sheila Tenenbaum
- Accession Number:
- JM 1-74b
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This modestly decorated bag bears a motif common in Islamic art: the intersecting squares that form an eight pointed star. On the reverse is a house, which may refer to the Moroccan Jewish name for tefillin bags, bayit, or house.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.