Amulet for Protection (Gaster Amulet 54)
Headdress for the protection of the child.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
- Classmark: Gaster Amulet 54
- Title: Amulet for Protection
- Subject(s): Amulets
- Origin Place: Sarajevo (Austria-Hungary, today in Bosnia Herzegovina)
- Date of Creation: 19th-20th century
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Technique(s): sewn, engraved
- Mode: Worn.
- Function: Protection of the baby against the evil eye.
- Note(s):
Gaster's note: "The head-dress [were?] the ornaments for the evil eye and from Serayevo. Presented to me by Mr Papo, probably worn by him as a baby. M.G. 5 May [1]914".
Compare the circular amulet to no. 606 in Catalogue of the Permanent and Loan Collections of the Jewish Museum London (London: Harvey Miller, 1974), p. 115 and Plate CLXIV.
- Quotation(s):"שדי צמרכד שדי לקי כוזו"
- Physical Description:
Circumference 44mm.
- Extent: height: 13 mm, width: 13 mm.
- Material(s): Textile; Metal
- Format: Clothing
- Condition:
Fine, but there are few stains on the textile itself.
- Script:
Hebrew square script.
- Decoration:
A white textile headdress, with golden textile and sequins decorations. Light blue stripes support the external structure of it, and their extensions are used as straps. Two metal amulets are attached (by a thread) to the frontal part of the headdress. The circular amulet is embellished with 19 leaves around its circumference and contains the name שד"י on both sides. The mihrab-like amulet features floral decorations and contains the names [ח]י שדי ץםרד(!)ד in one side, and שדי לקי כוזו on the other side.
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
- Classmark: Gaster Amulet 54
- Title: Amulet for Protection
- Subject(s): Amulets
- Origin Place: Sarajevo (Austria-Hungary, today in Bosnia Herzegovina)
- Date of Creation: 19th-20th century
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Technique(s): sewn, engraved
- Mode: Worn.
- Function: Protection of the baby against the evil eye.
- Note(s):
Gaster's note: "The head-dress [were?] the ornaments for the evil eye and from Serayevo. Presented to me by Mr Papo, probably worn by him as a baby. M.G. 5 May [1]914".
Compare the circular amulet to no. 606 in Catalogue of the Permanent and Loan Collections of the Jewish Museum London (London: Harvey Miller, 1974), p. 115 and Plate CLXIV.
- Quotation(s):"שדי צמרכד שדי לקי כוזו"
- Physical Description:
Circumference 44mm.
- Extent: height: 13 mm, width: 13 mm.
- Material(s): Textile; Metal
- Format: Clothing
- Condition:
Fine, but there are few stains on the textile itself.
- Script:
Hebrew square script.
- Decoration:
A white textile headdress, with golden textile and sequins decorations. Light blue stripes support the external structure of it, and their extensions are used as straps. Two metal amulets are attached (by a thread) to the frontal part of the headdress. The circular amulet is embellished with 19 leaves around its circumference and contains the name שד"י on both sides. The mihrab-like amulet features floral decorations and contains the names [ח]י שדי ץםרד(!)ד in one side, and שדי לקי כוזו on the other side.
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.
