Hanukkah lamp
(Faina Petryakova Memorial Museum in Lviv)
Hanukkah Menorah is a special candelabrum whose candles are lit up during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah.
Hanukkah candelabrum made of brass has the form of a bench with a decorative design of
the backrest with two stylized lions on the both sides. The main candle holders are made in the form of boats in which the special high-purified oil is poured and wicks are put.
- Museum / institution
- Faina Petryakova Memorial Museum in Lviv
- Inventory number in the institution
- № 26 Зошит №2 Метали
- unknown, Galicia
- History, source, type and date of acquisition
- From the private collection of Faina Petryakova, a well-known art critic. Added to the collection in 2002.
- Production period
- CE
- Technique
- riveting, casting
- 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. It should be noted that the oil is poured and the wicks are put from the left candle holder to the right one, and the candles are lit up from the right candle holder to the left.
- Era
- the beginning of XIX - end of XIX
- Materials
- brass
- Dimensions, cm
- width: 3.50, height: 15.00, length: 14.30
- Preservation condition
- satisfactory
- Description of the preservation condition
- The "servant" candle holder (the shamash) is missing in this сhanukiah.
- Restoration
- Restoration is recommended.
- Current location
- on display
- Since when displayed (year and month, the name of the exhibition or exposure)
- 2010