Byzantine Hexagram Oil Lamp

Hexagram appears on Byzantine hexagram oil lamp from Shlomo Moussaieff collection.

Otto Friedrich August Meinardus,  a German Coptologist and pastor (1925 – 2005),  mentioned a few other Greco Roman terra cotta lamps  in his article "The Hexagram or the Magen David in Byzantine Art" (in the Bulletin of the Christian Archeological Society 8 (period IV)(1975-1976) p. 97-100):

Excavated in Jerash – Goodenough, I, 161; VII, 358; I:142; VII, 251

Excavated in Samaria – George Andrew Reisner et al, Harvard excavations in Samaria 1908-1910 Cambridge 1925 Vol. II Pl 96 c.

Excavated in Ephesus – Forschungen in Ephesus, osterreichisches Archaeologisches Institut, Wien, Vol. IV, 773, Pl. V

Excavated in Athenian Agora – Judith Perlzweig, the Athenian Agora – Lamps from the Roman Period first to seventh century, Princeton 1961, nos. 353, 2440. 

Magen David Logo Made From Hebrew Letters

Magen David logo made from the Hebrew Letters Lamed Vav Yod, which compose the name Levi of the owner of a private Ambulance in Jerusalem, Israel. Designing Magen David logos is prevalent, and you can see many such examples in different logos of the Maccabiah. 

The Anti-Semitism Demon

Size: 40X14X14 cm

Wood box, spring, wood Yellow Badge and acrylic paintings.

Anti-Semitism is hiding usually until it bursts unpredictably. Like demons that were hiding in a box. The Yellow Badge is bigger than the box so that once it’s out there’s no way to put it back. On the sides of the box are painted the flags of Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Holland. There wasn’t enough space for the flags of the other Anti-Semitic countries…

Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008

Nepal 1994 Postage Stamp

Hexagram appears on Nepal 1994 Postage Stamp

 Picture is courtesy of Dobush from Kfar Aza Israel

Dobush from kfar Aza asked Israeli philately expert Ron Berger (in a Forum at Tapuz) about this postage stamp. Ron Berger says that this is the fourth in a series of famous people postage stamps issued on 23 December 1994, showing Bala Guru Shadananda (1835- 1916) who founded the first public schools in Nepal.

I thank Dobush and Ron Berger for the accurate info.

The 50th Anniversary of Management Education in Nepal-2004  

 2009 - Golden Jubilee Celebration of the Tribhuvan University in Nepal

Tau Crosses inside a hexagram

Picture of early 20^th century Tau Crosses inside a hexagram at Sheffield Roman CatholicCathedral, England, is courtesy of  “evissa” from Flickr who calls the hexagram by the name “double Trinity star”. Tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet, and it looks like the letter T.

Arabic illustration, Devils

Hexagram with a human figure and devils appears on an illustration from the 14th century C.E. Image was copied from Wikimedia Commons, entry: Category: Kitab al-Bulhan (Book of Wonders, MS. Bodl. Or. 133 manuscript, uploaded by: “Peacay”.

This illustration is included in a collection of Arabic illustration dealing with astrology, astronomy and geomancy. The book was compiled by Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani. I reckon, based on the context, that this Hexagram represents a star or a planet. 

65th anniversary of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

In 2008 the Bank of Poland issued this coin to commemorate 65th anniversary of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On the coin we see a Magen David (Yellow Badge) in the shape of barbed wire (which is a well known motif in commemorating the Holocaust) and a girl wearing a beret.

Another coin in this series shows another Magen  David (Yellow Badge) against a brick wall. Courtesy of Gideon from “collect”, the Israeli collectors’ forum.