Hanukkah lamp
(Yavornytsky Dnipropetrovsk National History Museum)
Hanukkah Menorah is a special candelabrum whose candles are lit up during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah.
- Museum / institution
- Yavornytsky Dnipropetrovsk National History Museum
- Inventory number in the institution
- КП-36293 / К-1764
- the Firm "Norblin Ko"; Warsaw
- History, source, type and date of acquisition
- Chanukia came to the Museum, probably in the 1930 – 1941, recorded in inventory book 1948
- Production period
- CE
- Technique
- engraving, repoussage and chasing, casting, gilded, silvered
- Religious holiday / lifecycle
- Hanukkah
- Religious holiday / lifecycle, comment
- On the first day of the holiday of Hanukkah the wick of shamash and of the first candle on the right side are lit up with a special blessings. One more candle is lit up on each of the following days of the holiday of Hanukkah, till all the 9 candles will be burning on the eighth day of the holiday.
- Era
- the beginning of XIX - end of XIX
- Materials
- copper
- Dimensions, cm
- width: 28.00, height: 22.00, length: 7.00
- Preservation condition
- satisfactory
- Description of the preservation condition
- Minor scratches and scrapes
- Restoration
- Restoration is recommended.
- Current location
- in storage