Met Museum mislabels Jewish phylacteries as 6th-century Egyptian amulet
The tefillin acquired by the museum is kept in the Islamic Art department.
A Jewish worshipper wears Tefillin as he prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City March 8, 2012. Tefillin, leather straps and boxes containing sacred parchments, are worn by Orthodox Jewish men during morning prayer(photo credit: BAZ RATNER/REUTERS)
