Memorial lamp, Parur, India, 1670 CE
According to the museum: "Hanging lamp, possibly a ner tamid (“eternal lamp”) or a lamp used on Yom Kippur. Inscribed in Hebrew: נר זה שנתן ברוך בכ”ר דוד אשכנזי בנדבת אמו לקודש פראור ("This is a lamp that was given by Barukh son of the honorable Rabbi David Ashkenazi as a gift [from] his mother for the sanctity of Parur"). Descendants of a Jeuda (Yehuda) and David Asquenazi, son of Rabbi Mosseh Asquenaz, who died in Kochi in 1646, and whose father "came from Germany," where members of the Paradesi community since the 17th century. A similar lamp (with two leaf-shaped oil wells), from the Kadavumbagam synagogue of Ernakulam, is included in the collection of the Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Museum, Hechal Shlomo, Jerusalem."
