Tefillin scroll
(Zhytomyr Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions)
The parchment strip with the prayer text for tefillin.
The parchment strip with four rows of the text of the third passage of the prayer "Shema" in Hebrew for embedding into the box ("bayit") of tefillin.
- Museum / institution
- Zhytomyr Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions
- Inventory number in the institution
- ЖКМ КП 34408/4 І Д 6598
- unknown
- History, source, type and date of acquisition
- Found in the demolished building in the city of Zhytomyr in 1987.
- Production period
- CE
- Technique
- manuscript, handicraft
- Technique, comment
- Text is written by sofer with indelible black ink on the parchment made of skin of kosher animal.
- Religious holiday / lifecycle
- daily religious use
- Religious holiday / lifecycle, comment
- Putting of tefillin on the head and on the left arm is the most important commandment from the Torah that Jewish men are required to perform on weekdays in the daytime with the corresponding blessing.
- Era
- end of XVIII - the beginning of XIX
- Materials
- parchment, ink
- Dimensions, cm
- width: 4.00, length: 58.00
- Preservation condition
- satisfactory
- Description of the preservation condition
- Rubbing, splotches, yellowing, folds of the parchment.
- Restoration
- Restoration is recommended.
- Current location
- in storage