- Object Name:
- Mezuzah Cover
- Place Made:
- Morocco
- Date:
- 20th century
- Medium:
- Silk velvet: metallic appliqués; metallic fringe and sequins
- Dimensions:
- 8 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. (21 × 24.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- The Jewish Museum
- Accession Number:
- JM 41-73
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In both medieval Spain and later, in Morocco, the scroll of a mezuzah was placed in a hollow carved out of a doorpost. Inside the home, it was then covered with a textile like this one. Its composition, a menorah set within a baldacchino, here formed of appliqués, is also found on other mezuzah cover, which also bear the word Shaddai (Almighty) in Hebrew characters.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.