- Object Name:
- Torah Crown
- Place Made:
- Rhodes (?) (Greece)
- Date:
- 1859/60 (date of inscription)
- Medium:
- Silver: chased and pierced
- Dimensions:
- 6 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 8 3/4 in. (16.5 × 22.2 × 22.2 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Gift of Kurt Thalberg in honor of Elizabeth Cats
- Accession Number:
- 1992-94
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This Torah crown was dedicated to the Kahal Gadol Synagogue of Rhodes by Michael Hayyim David Soriano. The Jewish Museum also owns a matching Torah Shield (1991-124) dedicated to the same synagogue by the same member of the prominent Rhodes Jewish family.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.