Silver votive plaque dedicated to the synagogue in Romaniote communities that were attached to the Torah ark curtain, Torah case wrappers (mappot) or sewn on Shaddayot belts.
Amar, Ariella. “‘And When it Goeth into the Sanctuary’: Special Donations among the Romaniotes.” The Guidebook of the Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens: The Jewish Museum of Greece, 2013, pp. 74-9.
Amar, Ariella. “Sacrificial Donations among Romaniote Jews.” Studia Rosenthalia, ed. Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig et al., vol. 45: Jewish Art in Context: The Role and Meaning of Artifacts and Visual Images, Peeters Publishers, 2014, pp. 91-114.
Amar, Ariella, and Irina Chernetsky. Shadai’ot: The Collection of the Jewish Museum of Greece: Documentation of the Index for Jewish Art. Jerusalem: Internal Publication of The Center for Jewish Art, 2006.
Battinou, Zanet and Christina Meri. “Seeking Protection: Shaddayot and Alephiot in the Romaniote World.” Windows on Jewish Worlds: Essays in Honor of William Gross, Collector of Judaica, ed. Shalom Sabar et al., Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2019, pp. 322-33.
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