Piece of Torah scroll
(Zaporizhia Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions)
Fragment of Torah ("Law of Moses", "Pentateuch of Moses") scroll.
Fragment of the Torah scroll is made from a piece of parchment made of the kosher animal skin. Text is written with the black ink in three columns with 42 rows in each column. Тhe text of this piece of scroll belongs to the book"Shmot" of the Torah and to the week's portion "Beshalach" ("When let go ..."). On the left and right sides of the parchment there are the holes - traces of stitching.
- Museum / institution
- Zaporizhia Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions
- Inventory number in the institution
- КП - 3534
- History, source, type and date of acquisition
- Transferred to the museum by Plekhun Fedir Pylypovych in March 1951.
- Production period
- CE
- Technique
- manuscript, handicraft
- Technique, comment
- Torah scroll is written from left to right on the parchment from a kosher animal skin with special black indelible ink using quill pen. In each column there are 42 lines of text and the distance between the columns is 9 Hebrew letters in the width. Every four pages are sewn together to form sections that are then stitched into a scroll. Parchment pages are sewn with special threads made of the tendons of the feet of kosher animals.
- Religious holiday / lifecycle
- for religious use
- Religious holiday / lifecycle, comment
- Torah scroll is used for a public Torah reading in the synagogue.
- Era
- the beginning of XIX - end of XIX
- Materials
- parchment, ink
- Dimensions, cm
- width: 46.00, length: 46.50
- Preservation condition
- satisfactory
- Description of the preservation condition
- On the parchment between the first and second columns of text there is a hole with jagged edges, yellowed and caked parchment with spots.
- Restoration
- Restoration is recommended.
- Current location
- in storage