The ten mobile bronze stands of Shlomo. Each rolls on four wheels and carries a basin. Five are arranged to the north, five to the south, “on the shoulder of the building” — in the tour, the floor of the Azara along the body of the Bayit. Their panels bore lions, oxen and keruvim; in the tour, only their frames are shown.
Dimensions
- stands of 4 × 4 × 3 amot
- four wheels of one and a half amot
- a basin of four amot on each
- five per side: “חָמֵשׁ עַל כֶּתֶף הַבַּיִת מִיָּמִין וְחָמֵשׁ עַל כֶּתֶף הַבַּיִת מִשְּׂמֹאלוֹ”
- panels with lions, oxen and keruvim
Sources
Project decisionFirst Temple: I Kings 7:27-39; the Mishna does not mention them. Project's position, as for the Bronze Sea: the tour places them in the Temple of the Mishna. Menachot 98b, which sets Moses' vessels among Shlomo's, speaks only of the First Temple; extending it to the Temple of the Mishna is the tour's choice.