Obj. ID: 2539
Sacred and Ritual Torah finials
The silver rimon consists of a shaft, a body, a head and an apex.
The shaft is cylindrical and it stems from a raised and round base. The base and the shaft's knobs are decorated with a foliate pattern. On the shaft of both rimons is the same dedicatory inscription. The body has a concave, upward-broadening body base and a domical upper part. The base is decorated by a foliate pattern, while the upper part has an open-work design composed of double roses. There are bell arms applied to the body's rim. The head consists of a concave neck and a six-armed crown. Bell arms are applied to the crown.
The apex is undulating. The dedicatory inscription is engraved in filled, linear letters, and reads
In Hebrew:
דק'ק ספרצים פעסט
in German:
Pest isr. C. Gemeinde
No 15a.
In the second rimon the number is 15b.
Translation: Of the holy congregation Pest. Pest israelian(int.) cultus(int.) community no.15b."
