This is not a chanukiyah, the menorah used on Hanukkah (those have nine branches, not seven) but the
This is not a chanukiyah, the menorah used on Hanukkah (those have nine branches, not seven) but the second I saw this I said “Oh, what up Judaism” and the Louvre confirmed it for me. Their focus is on the candelabra and the braided vegetation around it but I’m pretty sure that’s a shofar on the right of the inside the wreath, and possibly a lulav on the left? Either way, fun to see![ID: A piece of masonry carved with several objects – rosettes at the corners, a wreath of some kind of vegetation, and a seven-branch candelabra, consisting of six branches curving outward from a central stem, flanked by two sinuous shapes. The one on the right resembles a traditional shofar horn, and the one on the left appears to be a long rod of some kind with two small branches off the main.] -- source link
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