Name/Title
KetubahEntry/Object ID
K_1070Description
Decorated paper ketubah. Alexandria, Egypt, 19th Tamuz 5603 [1843]. Ketubah on paper sheet, with upper edge decoratively cut. Ketubah and Tena'im (in Oriental cursive script) in center, inside a decorated frame. Signatures of groom (at center, in Latin characters) and witnesses at edge. On right side, calligraphic signature of "Shlomo Chazan" – R. Shlomo Chazan, Rabbi of Alexandria, who also appears to have written the entire text of the ketubah. The other witness: "Elisha Karpi". R. Shlomo Chazan (d. 1855) was a leading Egyptian Torah scholar, who succeeded R. Yedidiah Shlomo Yisrael as Chief Rabbi of Alexandria (in 1831). He was a halachic decisor, Torah disseminator of books, including the biographical HaMaalot LiShlomo.Made/Created
Date made
1843Place
* Untyped Place
Alexandria, EgyptMaterial
Ink and paint on paper