Darbukah (wedding and festival drum ) Polychrome terracotta with a composition in superimposed registers. The body is decorated with a floral design under which is inscribed a text in Judeo-Arabic: "For the joy of friends and loved ones, for the Mitzvot and merits". Under the body and on the shaft, there is alternating incised and polychrome decoration. North Africa, probably Tunisia, late 19th or early 20th century. A very rare surviving example of a darbuka intended to accompany Jewish ceremonies. Key words: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israelite, Israel, antisemitism, antisemitism, dreyfus, meguila, sepharad, ketubah