This contract is for the marriage of Solomon, son of Abraham, and Rachel, daughter of Elijahu. The total amount of the dowry was set at 26,000 “lion” piastre. This Ketubbah belongs to a type that was particular to Jerusalem between the 1830s and the 1860s. As in other representations, floral decorations in bright colors frame the lower field of text (with the signatures of the bride and groom in the center and the artfully ornamented monograms of two Jerusalem rabbis) as well as the broad band of the tympanum above. In the center of the tympanum is a bouquet of flowers in a vase, flanked to the left and right by cypress trees and date palms, linking the Jerusalem of the present to the promised Jerusalem. (flu)

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