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© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev, 1989

The Rimon is made of silver and consists of a shaft, a body,a head and an apex

The shaft is a tapering cylinder, encircled by a ring at its bottom and top. . It is surmounted by a globular capital. The body has a pear shape.It is mounted over a bowl-shaped body base and is surmounted by an angular collar to which six rings are attached. A chain carrying flattened and slit drop shaped bell is hung on each ring.

The body is decorated by petals radiating from its base,and three bands with a geometrical pattern. Similar cartouches are decorated intermittently by a leaf flanked by two birds and a leaf pattern. A conical shaped head is decorated with two geometrical bands in its base and a petals radiating from the apex. A flat Star of David apex is mounted over a circlet, and bears the inscription: ציון !Zion! A dedicatory inscription is engraved on the left shaft:

!אמונה עיון בן יוסף ##אמונה חנה בת יהודה! !Emunah A'yun son of Joseph## Emunah Hanah daughter of Yehuda!

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S056170