Case for a Torah scroll

Case for a Torah scroll

  • Place of origin:Tskhinvali (Georgia) – Jerusalem
  • Date:1881
  • Materials and equipment:Wood, velvet, and calico
  • Size:97 х 62 х 15 (when opened)
  • Topic:
    Georgian Jews
Case for a Torah scroll. Tskhinvali (Georgia) – Jerusalem. 1881. Wood, velvet, and calico. 97 х 62 х 15 (when opened). Hebrew. Dedicatory inscription: ‘This case and the Torah scroll it contains were dedicated by Seigneur Binyamin, son of Yisrael Papis Imrishvili of Tskhinvali, which is in Georgia, in memory of his son Shlomo, who died at a young age in the holy city of Jerusalem in the year 5641 from the Creation of the World’.