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© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev, 31.1.95

The rectangualar kaporet is comprised of a band and five lobes on its lower border. The upper part is inscribed with two verses. In square filled letters from right to left it reads:

דע לפני מי אתה עומד )אבות ג א(: שויתי ה לנגדי תמיד )תהלים טז ח(

"Know before whom you are standing (Mishnah Avot 2:1); I have set the Lord always before me (Ps. 19:8)".

The inscription is decorated with foliate motives, one in the center, seperates the verses and two others flank them on the sides. The band is decorated with three identical crowns each comprised of a wide base surmounted by three fleur-des-lys like arms. Above each crown there is a title inscribed in square filled letter. From right to left it reads:

כתר תורה: כתר כהונה: כתר מלכות "Crown of the Law; Crown of Priesthood; Crown of Kingship"

Foliate and floral motifs which emerge from each crown fill the space between them. A strip which seperates the band and the lobes is inscribed with a dedicatory inscription which reads:

זה הכפרת נ)דבת( המרומ)ם( המנהיג מו)מורנו( מרדכי בהח)בן הרב ח( הענך כץ ואשתו הגבירה מ)רת( רוזא בה )בת הרב( יהושיע סגל שנת תקנ"ו לפ"ק

"This Kaporet was donated by the exalted, the leader, our teacher Mordechai, Son of the Rabbi Ch. Hench Catz, and his wife the woman of substance Mrs. Rosa daughter of the Rabbi Joshua Segal, the year (5)556 (1796)".

Each of the five lobes is decorated with one of the sanctuary implements. The implements are titled with an inscription in square filled letters. From right to left are:

  • the Altar of the sacrifice (14023);
  • the Shrewbread table (14024);
  • the Menorah (14025),
  • the Laver and its stand (14026);
  • the Ark of the covenant (14027).

A band of fringes frames the Kaporet and three tassles hang from its lower border. Nine rings attached to the upper border are used for hanging it on the Torah ark.

Name/Title
Kapporet (Torah Ark valance) | Unknown
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Date
1796
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Material / Technique
Cloth: Bordeaux silk velvet
Decoration: embroidery:
1. Gold and Silver threads twisted around silk core;
2. filled stich in couching technique;
3. cardboard silk
Additions: fringes, tassles, shpanyer arbeit
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Height
58 cm
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Ornamentation
Custom
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Façade (main)
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Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
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History/Provenance
The Kaporet was documented in 1925 in the Great Synagogue inside the city of Lvov. From 1934 it was part of the collection of the Museum of the Jewish community and from 1939 it belongs to the city Museum.
Main Surveys & Excavations
Bibliography
B.H. Mus., Treasures-Lvov, 1994, no. 30.
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Documenter
| S.H. (M.T.) 31.1.1995
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