Etrog box
(Volodymyr-Volynsk Historical Museum)
Etrog box for Sukkot holiday.
The box of rectangular shape with a flat bottom and a hinged lid of pyramidal shape, the side walls are convex and corrugated.
- Museum / institution
- Volodymyr-Volynsk Historical Museum
- Inventory number in the institution
- Р6 -11
- History, source, type and date of acquisition
- Transferred to the museum in 1978 from the village Berezovychi of Volodymyr-Volynsk district.
- 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 XVIII - end of XVIII
- Materials
- copper
- Dimensions, cm
- width: 9.00, height: 8.00, length: 13.00
- Preservation condition
- bad
- Description of the preservation condition
- On the cover inside the inscription in Hebrew is engraved, which means "Etrog from a tree in the box to carry - long us to live, and this box - there is a commandment in it - Nadav-Mordechai, the 27th of av anniversary of the death of my old father Reb Shmuel memory of him to blessing".
- Restoration
- Restoration is recommended.
- Current location
- in storage