Phylactery (tefillin)

Unknown maker

Medium: Leather, wood, and parchment
Dimensions: Overall scroll holder: 3 9/16 × 2 13/16 × 2 1/4 in. (9 × 7.2 × 5.7 cm) strap: 9/16 × 40 1/2 in. (1.4 × 102.9 cm) Backpiece: 3 9/16 × 5/8 × 2 13/16 in. (9 × 1.6 × 7.2 cm) Cube: 1 7/8 × 1 15/16 × 1 5/8 in. (4.7 × 4.9 × 4.1 cm) Overall scroll holder: 3 9/16 × 2 13/16 × 2 1/4 in. (9 × 7.2 × 5.7 cm)
Department: Islamic Art
Classification: Leather
Dated: probably 19th century
Pixels: 674 × 490
SHA-256: 9186a48f4ca387b5…
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License, verbatimCC0

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open Access, Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Flagged isPublicDomain=true in the museum's own record.

Phylactery (tefillin). probably 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.