The illustration shows Ahasuerus who reclines in the bed during his sleepless night while his servant is sitting on the floor and is reading to him from a scroll. The scene is labeled בלילה ההוא נדדה שנת המלך ‒ "On that night could not the king sleep (...)" (Es. 6:1).
The scroll features a mixture of Persian miniatures with Western-orientalist symbolic elements characteristic for Raban's works.
Toward the end of the 1920s, the Bezalel School produced two printed Esther scrolls with illustrations that were later hand-colored. For the bigger one, see 081.012.051. This is the smaller of the two and was apparently printed in 1927, placed in a silver case, and sent to supporters of the Bezalel School abroad.
No bibliography on the scroll is available.
For more information on the artist see Zeev Raban (Ravitzki), Information Center for Israeli Art, https://museum.imj.org.il (30.12.2019).
Some works of Zeev Raban are available on: Zeev Raban, Artists, http://www.artnet.com (30.12.2019).