Brass Platter
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1890
name: label: Collector
content: Harry Friedenwald
label: Donor Name
content: Harry Friedenwald
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD "INSCRIPTION (PRAYER). ANIMALS BORDER THE PLATE, SOME WITH NO HEADS, SOME WITH THE HEADS OF BEARDED MEN. VAGUELY BIRD-SHAPED." ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS "HEBREW SACRIFICIAL PLATTER BRASS PLATE". GROSSMAN (1997:106) STATES THAT ALTHOUGH THIS TRAY WAS PUBLISHED AND DISPLAYED AS A SEDER ITEM, " THE INSCRIPTION HAS NO DISCERNIBLE MEANING IN HEBREW OR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE WRITTEN IN HEBREW CHARACTERS...THE DECORATION... IS ALSO UNUSUAL FOR A SEDER PLATE"
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Grossman, Grace Cohen and Richard Eighme Ahlborn, 1997, "Judaica at the Smithsonian: Cultural Politics as Cultural Model" Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology. Vol. 52, p. 106
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Turkey (Türkiye)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Jewish
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022985
label: USNM Number
content: E130291-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Platter