- Object Name:
- Torah Finials
- Place Made:
- Ioánnina (Greece)
- Date:
- 1841/42 (?) (date of inscription)
- Medium:
- Silver: chased
- Dimensions:
- Each: 16 1/8 × 3 15/16 in. (41 × 10 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Congregation Sheerith Israel of Janina, Bronx, NY through Elias Matsas
- Accession Number:
- 1987-60a-b
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These Torah finials were given to the synagogue of the New Holy Congregation Ioannina by the officer Moses Israel Mattathiah. There were two synagogues in Ioannina, the "Old" and the "New", and both adhered to the Romaniote (Greek-Byzantine) rite.
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