Obj. ID: 14391
Sacred and Ritual Objects  Torah finials, 1948

The conical Torah finial consists of a shaft, a body, and an apex.

The cylindrical shaft tapers towards the body. It is encircled at the bottom by a double band of engraved twisted rope and a zigzag line and at the top by a ring decorated with thin engraved hachured linens.

Each shaft bears a dedicatory inscription in square-filled letters, that read from bottom to top:

"נדבת רג'ינה לוי / לע"נ (=לעילוי נשמת) יצחק בן עובדיה לוי / ב' סיון תש"ח / תנצב"ה (=תהי נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים)". 

Translation: The donation of Reginah Levi \ for the exaltation of the soul of Yizhak, son of Ovadya Levi \ second of Sivan [5] 708 (1948) \ may his soul be bound up in the bond of life.

A hemispheric capital surmounts the shaft. It is decorated at the bottom with a whorl of petals radiating from the base and at the top by a zigzag line.

The conical-shaped body is divided into upper and lower parts by a protruding ring.

The lower part consists of a base and a main section.

The bowl-shaped base bears a whorl of petals, radiating from the bottom, and the top is encircled with an engrailed line with circles and a zigzag line. A smooth ring connects the base and the main section. The conical main section is decorated at the bottom with a zigzag line toped by circles and flowers.

The protruding ring is encircled at the bottom and top by a thread. Five hatched decorated rings carrying ball-shaped bells are attached to the protruding ring.

Above the ring is a conical unit decorated at the bottom with a zigzag line and an invected line with circles, and at the top with a zigzag line.

A globular apex decorated with zigzag and floral circumambient bands terminates the finial.