Fragment of Torah scroll, the book "Bemidbar"
(Khudiakova Oleksandriya Museum of Culture and Traditions)
Fragment of Torah ("Law of Moses", "Pentateuch of Moses") scroll.
Torah scroll fragment consists of three interconnected sheets of parchment. The fragment contains an excerpt from the book "Bemidbar", from the weekly portion "Pinchas". The fragment of a scroll contains five columns of the text written on parchment in 42 lines in Hebrew.
- Museum / institution
- Khudiakova Oleksandriya Museum of Culture and Traditions
- Inventory number in the institution
- № ОКМ 16426
- History, source, type and date of acquisition
- Transferred to the museum by the family from Olexandria who found the Torah scroll during the destruction the building in the mid 90's of the 20th century.
- Production period
- CE
- Technique
- manuscript
- 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. The distance between the columns of the text of the scroll is 9 Hebrew letters in the width.
- Religious holiday / lifecycle
- for religious use
- Religious holiday / lifecycle, comment
- Torah scroll is used for a public Torah reading in the synagogue.
- Era
- middle of XIX - the beginning of XX
- Materials
- parchment, ink
- Dimensions, cm
- width: 43.00, length: 202.00
- Preservation condition
- satisfactory
- Restoration
- Restoration is recommended.
- Current location
- on display