Dec 1, 2025
Torah finials, India, date unknown
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Torah finials, India, date unknown
Pair of Torah Finials by Wilhelmus Angenendt, 1778.
Torah finials, Livorno, Italy, 1837 CE
Torah finials, Turkmenistan, 19th or 20th century CE
While the location attributed to these finials is Turkmenistan, the museum lists Afghan Jews as the community they are associated with.
They contain the inscription:
לנשמתה // שפרה בת רפאל גול // אשת מיכאל אליאסו נ'ע' [=נוחו 'עדן] //נפטרה כ' כסלו תשכ"ה // ת'נ'צ'ב'ה
Translation: For the soul of // Shifrah daughter of Raphael Gol // wife of Michael Eliasof, may he rest in Eden(int.) // passed away in 20th Kislev (5)725=(24.11.1964) // may her soul be bound up in the bond of life
Rimonim, Afghanistan, date unknown
Torah finials, Zarqan, Iran, 1916 CE
Torah finials, China, 1880 CE
These rimonim were made in China and were likely used by a Baghdadi community somewhere in Southeast Asia, though we don't know where exactly.
Torah finials, Cochin (now Kochi), British India (now India), 1850 CE
The museum writes: "This rather small pair of Torah finials, or "Rimmonim" in Hebrew, was used on the Torah Tik favored by the Jews of Cochin. Shaped in the form of a lotus flower, the pair is crafted from silver covered with gold leaf. There is a similar pair in the Jewish museum in New York. This form is unique to the Jews of the Cochin area. The Torah Tiks and the crowns used in that city were also unusual forms linked to that area only."