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Description: | A collection of items collected by the Torrance family in Tiberias, Palestine/Israel. Dr David Watt Torrance founded a mission hospital in Tiberias in 1885, which was continued by his son Herbert until 1959. They collected various artefacts including archaeological material (some from Ancient Egypt), traditional Jewish artefacts and modern tourist items. Examples include pottery, scrolls of the law, jewellery, Phylactery, Mezuzahs, models of arab ploughs, sets of reed pipes, Arab and Jewish garments, strings of small white shells from Lake Galilee, an Arab dagger, a crown of thorns, a prayer shawl, cloths edged with shells for covering water pitchers and many more. Although the Torrance family left a collection of papers and photographs to the University of Dundee Archives, there is little or no provenance for most of the artefacts in this collection. | Format: | fresco shell mezuzahs kippa scrolls pipes models sling lamps phylactery bell head dress coins maps bracelets pottery mortar dishes seeds jug stones garments bangle | Subjects: | Non-Western Ethnography World Archaeology Numismatics Costume and Textiles Health and Medicine | Source: | University of Dundee | Address: | 5-7 Hawkhill Place,
DD1 4HN | Creator: | David Watt Torrance and Herbert Watt Torrance | Contributor: | Passed to Museum Services by Archive Services, who received them from the Torrance family along with photographs and papers. Accessioned in 1995. | Identifier: | DUNUC-CLD113 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | DUNUC-CLD000 | Format: | fresco shell mezuzahs kippa scrolls pipes models sling lamps phylactery bell head dress coins maps bracelets pottery mortar dishes seeds jug stones garments bangle |
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