Obj. ID: 10988
Sacred and Ritual Objects  Torah finials, Iran, 1872

The rimon is made of silver and consists of a shaft, a body, a head and an apex ## The shaft is a tapering cylinder and has a slant cut bottom encircled by a ring. Three rings encircle the middle and two the top of the shaft. The shaft is surmounted by a globural capital. ## The body has a pear shape. It is mounted over a bowl-shaped body and is surmounted by an angular collar to which eight rings are attached. A chain carrying flattened and slit drop shaped bell is hung on each ring. The body base is decorated by radiating petals. The body has at its lower part a dedicatory inscripiton, and bears cartouche pattern. The onion shaped head is decorated with cartouches in its base, and petales radiating from the apex.## A conical shaped apex is mounted over a circlet. The dedictory inscription on the body is chaised in linear letters, and reads: זה הרימונים על נש' )נשמת( יחזקאל בקג'י ועל נש' אשתו רחל שנת תרלב !Those rimonim are for the soul (int.) Ezekiel Bakgi and for the soul of his wife Rahel the year (5)632=(1872)!