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    Senior Member Tradd's Avatar
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    The writing on the shawl looks more like Hebrew to me.

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    Could it be an altar cover?

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    Quote Originally Posted by nswef View Post
    Could it be an altar cover?
    I am at a loss as to what it could be. I am saying prayer shall because it is identical in size and shape to the Jewish prayer shawl or tallit. The fringes on the 4 corners too also make me think this. The difference is the writing and the scenes embroidered on it. Also it has sequins in the design and I don't think the Jewish prayer shawls do.
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    The writing seems to be Hebrew; it's none of the other Semitic languages, as far as I can tell, but it has the hash-mark vowels they all have. Good luck with your detective work!

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    I’m betting that some Jews for Jesus charismatic church lady made this thing with in the last 30 years and it’s a hodgepodge of all kinds of ideas that her church was into that time.

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    I would suggest sending the photo of the lettering to a linguist at a local university. bae or his daughter might be able to shine light on it. I tried finding similar alphabets online and there are just so many alphabets! Jane is right--the marks (diacritical? accent?) offer another clue.

    Then I agree that the windmill is yet another clue.

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    Cityscape could be Jerusalem, including the Montefiore Windmill, c. 1857.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dado potato View Post
    Cityscape could be Jerusalem, including the Montefiore Windmill, c. 1857.
    That you! That has given me some direction. The windmill was what was throwing me, but this makes it possible that it is actually Hebrew.
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    Sad Eyed Lady, this is indeed a tallit (aka tallis), which is a Jewish prayer shawl. The writing is in Hebrew, and is a portion of the standard blessing one recites before putting on the shawl to pray. In phonetic Hebrew, it reads "Asher kidishanu b'mitzvotav, B'tzivanu l'hitateif b'tzitzit," which roughly means "Who blesses us with these mitzvot (plural for "mitzvah") and commands us to wear "tzitzit," or the prayer shawl." The buildings are probably representative of Jerusalem, although the windmill is a rather unusual addition to a cityscape featured on tallit, or possibly Amsterdam, where there was a thriving Jewish community.

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