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© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev, 1988

The silver rimon consists of a shaft, a body, a head and an apex.

The cylindrical shaft is tapering and has a straight-cut buttom. The bottom and the top bears a band of leaves. The top of the shaft is surmounted by an hemispheric capital which is decorated with floral pattern. Bell-arms are attached to the capital. The shaft bears an dedicatory inscription. The globular body is decorated with cartouches, bearing geometric pattern,and with flowers. There are six bell-arms applied to the body.

The head has a tower shape and three loops for bells are appliedto it.

It is surmounted by an undulating apex. The dedicatory inscription is engraved in linear letters, and reads:

ב"ה"כ" [בית הכנסת] דק"ק [דקהילה קדושה] ספרדים פעסט /  זמן הגבאים הגביר יעקב שלמה אלבח[ה?]רי הי' [ה' ישמרהו] וגם ה" מורדכי שרייבער / שנת תרנ"ח לפ"ק

"The synagogue of the holy community (int.) sepharadim Pest, in the time of the gabais, the master Jakob Salomon Albahari, may the Lord protect him (int.) and also Mr. Mordecai Schreiber, the year (5)659=(1899)"

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Date
1899
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158064