Stamp review: The Sigd Festival (2019-11-26)
The Sigd Festival | חג הסיגד The Sigd Festival stamp, issued November 26th, 2019, is the third and final installment of Israel Post 's Ethnic Festivals in Israel series. The series began in May with a Moroccan Mimouna stamp, continued in September with a Kurdish Sehrane stamp , and concluded last week with a stamp dedicated to the Ethiopian Sigd. All three stamps were designed by Mario Sermoneta and Meir Eshel, who in 2014 collaborated on a series called Pioneering Women and whose stylistic imprints are readily discernible in their work. Among the Ethnic Festivals trio, "Sigd" was assigned the highest face value at ₪7.40. "Sigd" depicts five kesim , or priests, in traditional robes and qob hats standing shoulder to shoulder as a view of Jerusalem's Old City with its Temple Mount and Dome of the Rock forms the background rising behind them. Three of the kesim are holding microphones, and the rightmost among them, who is slightly foregrounded relat...