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Stone Hanukah Lamp – Yemen
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Stone Hanukah Lamp – Yemen
Hanukah lamp made of dark stone. Yemen.
Eight flower-shaped branches (eight-petal flowers). A small pinhole to the inner side of the branches to let oil flow from the branches and the Shamash, the Shamash in the center of the flower, with a high, round protrusion.
Engraved decorations (geometrical and vegetal designs) on the bottom of the lamp and its outer sides. [See also in Pri Chadash book, Hanukah rituals, number 671, that if candles are separated, you can light Hanukah candles in a circle].
Width: 21 cm, hight: 3.5 cm. Fair condition. Breakage with omissions to upper part of one of the branches and to lower part of another branch. Decorations are blurred.
See: Jewish life in art and tradition, Heichal Shlomo publishing, Jerusalem, 1980, page 163.
