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Mappah
Title: Mappah
Date: [1849] [Dedication]
Creator: Zaphira, wife of Menahem Kabeli (?)
Format: H67; W96 cm; silk
Source: The Jewish Museum of Greece
Rights: Society of Epirotic Studies - The Jewish Museum of Greece
Publisher: The Jewish Museum of Greece
Subject: Textile, synagogual textile, embroidery, Jewish Community of Ioannina
Description: Tik (Torah case) wrapper, faded grey-brown cotton, green silk centrepiece with laid and couched embroidery with silk threads, central flower and diagonally placed floral corner motifs, with dedicatory strip in tablet weaving technique, donated by Zaphira, wife of Menahem Kabeli, in memory of her daughter Sarah.
DataProvider: The Jewish Museum of Greece
Provenance: Ioannina
Type: text
Provider: Judaica Europeana, Greece
