Obj. ID: 932
Sacred and Ritual Objects  Torah finials, Turkey, 1922

The silver finial consists of a shaft, a body, a head and an apex.

The tapering cylindrical shaft is encircled at the bottom and top by a ring decorated with a vertical groove. Both shafts bear a dedicatory inscription in square filled linear letters which reads :

"בע"ה )בעזרת השם( הקדש לק"ק )לקהל קדוש( בקור חולים יב"ץ )יראו בנחמת ציון( מהאדון אפרים פונטורימולי הי"ו )השם ישמרהו ויצילהו( לע"ן )לעילוי נשמת( אחיו הנבקש קהוה כהר משה יצחק פונטרימולי בן גויא נ"ע )נוחה עדן( 2865

"With the Lord`s help, dedicated to the holy congregation Bikur Holim .............from Mr. Ephraim Pontorimoly may the Lord protect him and save him for the exaltation of the soul of his brother...................... Moses Izac Pontrimoly son of Goya may he rest in Eden"

A concave unit is mounted over the shaft and supports a spheroid capital. The capital is decorated with an openwork circular band composed of flowers. Six bell rings are attached around the band.

The upside down conical-shaped body is composed of a body base and a cap, decorated with an openwork designs. The body base has concave edges and is decorated with a whorl of lancet-shaped leaves, enclosing leaves and flowers. It is topped by a dome-shaped cap which is decorated with circumfer flowers enclosed by semicircular arches. Six bell rings are atached to the cap"s edges.

The head is composed of a base and a cap, decorated with an openwork designs. The base, similar in shape to the body base, is decorated with openwork lancet arches enclosing leaves and flowers, surmounted by a pointed dome-shaped cap decorated with a whorl of leaves. The Finial is surmounted by a flower-shaped apex.