Spice altar

Materials: Clay with Hebrew text

The text

וידבר ה' אל משה לאמר. ואתה קח לך בשמים ראש מר דרור חמש מאות וקנמן בשם מחציתו חמשים ומאתים וקנה בשם חמשים ומאתים.

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Take for yourself choice spices, five hundred of pure myrrh, half as much, two hundred and fifty, of sweet cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty of aromatic cane.

Exodus 30:22 to 23, the spices of the anointing oil

Identification of this photograph is provisional.

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Arnold Schwarzbart, z"l. March 10, 1942 to March 16, 2015.

His papers are held as the Arnold Schwarzbart Collection, MSC 0576, in the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at the Knox County Public Library. Eulogies and tributes are collected under Remembrances.