no. 1630, JEWISH CHREMONIALS—ADLER AND. CASANOWICZ. WENA 
159. MrzuzAH IN SILVER CASE OF CHASED WORK, MADE IN Russta.— 
Inseribed in Hebrew with the words: A fruitful bough, even a fruit- 
ful bough by. a well (Genesis xlix, 22). Height, 34 inches. (Cat. 
No. 4564, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 
160. MINIATURE MEZUZAH IN SILVER CASE, ATTACHABLE TO A CHAIN.— 
Supposed to have been worn as a talisman. Height, 1$ inches. (Cat. 
No. 4565, U.S.N.M.) | 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 
161. Mrzuzan.—Parchment manuscript. Measurements, 5 by 44 
inches. (Cat. No. 4566, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 
162. Mrzuzan.—Parchment manuscript from Palestine. Measure- 
ments, 6 by 54 inches. (Cat. No. 216161, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Mr. S. S. Howland. 
163. MnzuzaAH IN METAL CASsE.—Height, 3 inches. (Cat. No. 158353, 
U.S.N.M.) 
Gift of Miss Ottenberg. | 
164. ScriprurAL Morro.—Made of red silk and embroidered in 
gold, with the Hebrew passages: “ Let thy garments be always white, 
and let not thy head lack ointment” (Ecclesiastes 1x, 8), and “I will 
dwell in thy tabernacle forever; I will take refuge in the covert of 
thy wings. Selah.” (Psalms ]xi,4). Made in Smyrna, Asia Minor, ° 
at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Length, 274 inches; 
width, 74 inches. (Cat. No. 491, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 
165. Pirce or Otivewoop rrom JBRUSALEM.—Eneraved in relief 
with a representation of the Tomb of the Prophet Zechariah. Height, 
9 inches; width, 7 inches. (Cat. No. 3618, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 
166. Sttver MEDAL.—Struck in commemoration of the edict of Em- 
peror Francis Joseph I of February 18, 1860, granting the Israelites 
of his Empire the right to own real estate. On the obverse are in re- 
lief, to the right, a crowned female figure holding a scroll inscribed 
in Hebrew: “ One people and one nation; ” to the left, the figure of a 
boy holding in his right hand a wreath, in his left a palm branch. Be- 
tween the figures are, above, two tablets, inscribed in Hebrew: ‘“ One 
law for us all;” beneath, the bust of the Emperor and the double 
eagle of the imperial standard. The margin and bottom of the medal 
have appropriate German legends, expressive of the gratitude of the 
Israelites. The reverse is inscribed with the paragraphs of the edict. 
bearing on the subject. Diameter, 24° inches; thickness, one-fourth 
inch. (Cat. No. 154615, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 
