(Jewish Group) Twitter debate after Metropolitan Museum of Art labels tefillin as Egyptian amulet
The first time the Metropolitan Museum of Art tweeted a picture that appeared unmistakably to Jewish followers to be a ritual object used in Jewish prayer with the label amulet, a single follower responded with a correction.
That is not an Amulet it is a Jewish tefillin, wrote an account from a New York City rug gallery.
The object, which the Met says it acquired in 1962, is listed as part of the museums Islamic Art Department as a sixth-century amulet from Egypt. It is dated at A.D. 5001000.
But a photo of the piece in the collection looks unmistakably like one piece of tefillin, the leather boxes and straps used in prayer by observant Jews. A shin, the Hebrew letter on the portion of tefillin that goes on the head, can be seen in the picture.
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Some fun gentliesplainin' toward the end of the article.