Etrog box
(Kirovograd Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions)
Metal etrog box for Sukkot holiday.
Metal box of rectangular shape with truncated edges and lid attached to the case, the box decorated with two metal patch elements in the form of flowers and petals. Legs of the box are decorated in the form of balls.
- Museum / institution
- Kirovograd Regional Museum of Culture and Traditions
- Inventory number in the institution
- КІ - 2505
- History, source, type and date of acquisition
- Transferred to the museum as a part of the collection of O. Ilyin for permanent storage. 1994.
- Production period
- CE
- Technique
- engraving, repoussage and chasing, riveting, embossing
- Religious holiday / lifecycle
- Sukkot
- Religious holiday / lifecycle, comment
- Etrog which is one of the four species of plants and used during the Sukkot holidayis traditionally wrapped in silk soft cloth and put in a box. For ages Jews greatly valued and took care of etrog, keeping it in a box with cotton wool inside to avoid damage. In order to express the respect to etrog and love to commandment the box was decorated especially beautiful with ornaments and religious inscriptions.
- Era
- the beginning of XIX - end of XIX
- Materials
- metal
- Dimensions, cm
- width: 6.50, height: 8.00, length: 13.20
- Inscriptions, marks, initials
- There is the stamp at the bottom of the box: oval with two crossed hammers and Hebrew letters "bet" and "nun soffit" in oval.
- Preservation condition
- satisfactory
- Description of the preservation condition
- scratches
- Restoration
- no restoration needed
- Current location
- on display
- Since when displayed (year and month, the name of the exhibition or exposure)
- 1994 рік