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State Medal - The Israel Museum
| Location | Israel |
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| Year | 1965 |
| Type | Souvenir medallion |
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| Obverse description | The central field bears a trilingual legend in Hebrew, English, and French identifying the institution. The border is composed of a stylized architectural frieze depicting the museum buildings, flanked by olive branches in relief at the upper left and right. |
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| Obverse lettering | מוזיאון ישראל THE ISRAEL MUSEUM LE MUSEE D'ISRAEL |
| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a relief representation of an ancient stone menorah, identified as a seven-branched candelabrum carved in a 2nd-century C.E. synagogue stone found at Tiberias. The branches are decorated with stylized open pomegranates and recessed oil containers, set within a roughly hewn stone slab occupying the central field against a plain raised rim. |
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