Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)

On view

African Art

Menorah (Hanukkah lamp),

1895

Moise Ben Ichou, active Tlemcen, Algeria
2023-13

Information

Title
Menorah (Hanukkah lamp)
Dates

1895

Maker
Moise Ben Ichou
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
30 × 23.6 × 7 cm (11 13/16 × 9 5/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2023-13
Place Made

Africa, Algeria, Tlemcen

Inscription
Because the candle is a commandment and the Torah is light | The servant of the Lord Mordechai Yaluz, May his Rock and Redeemer protect him. Tlemcen ....... 5 December 1895
Culture
African
Type
religious objects, hanukkah lamps, metalwork

[Avraham Yani, Paris, France]; [Yitzhok Stein, Jerusalem, Israel, by ca. 2005]; purchased by William Gross, Tel Aviv, Israel, ca. 2005; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2023.

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