Shofar

[Illustration from period source]

[Illustration from PicDic]

Illustration/s from Brickbat's Armorial Stash - [[1]]:

Pennsic Traceable Art Project:

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Period Images (found by Christie Ward):

(1) 6th c. "Shalom al Yisrael" mosaic floor from a synagogue in Jericho showing a shofar. (http://www.hearingshofar.com/Book1.htm)

(2) 13th c. Machzor Shows a Shofar Blower (http://www.hearingshofar.com/Book2.htm)

(3) 13th-14th c. Trumpeter blowing the Shofar at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, manuscript according to the German rite. (http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XB221653/Trumpeter-blowing-the-Shofar-at-the-time-of-Rosh -Hashanah-and-Yom-%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%A6?img=0&search=XIII-XIV%20siecle)

(4) 1393 - Shofar in a Biblical and Halakhic Miscellany. Germany, ms 652. (http://www.jhom.com/calendar/tishrei/popup_miscellany.htm)

(5) 1560 - The return of the Messiah at the gates of Jerusalem heralded by the shofar of the prophet Elijah. (http://blogs.cjh.org/YUM_AIR/)

(6) 1609 - The return of the Messiah at the gates of Jerusalem heralded by the shofar of the prophet Elijah. Venice. (http://hearingshofar.blogspot.com/2011/07/elijah-in-20th-century-art.html)

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Registered or Submitted Images:

The kudu-horn shofar is thought to be post period hence the simpler rams-horn version on Yitzchak of Marinus' device.

NovOct

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