Ketubbah decoration in Eretz Israel, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon reflects both Sephardic influences from the major communities of the Ottoman Empire and contemporary local Islamic traditions. Ketubbot from Jerusalem occasionally allude to the sacredness of the city, the Temple and its holy sites. A Jerusalem ketubbah from 1896 in the National Library of Israel collection (no. 81) illustrates this naive, yet attractive style, emulated in printed ketubbot at a more affordable price.
A fascinating item is the Samaritan ketubbah in the Braginsky Collection (no. 82). Although ketubbot are not mentioned as such in the Torah and Samaritans do not accept rabbinic authority, they nevertheless adopted the custom.
With its flowery Hebrew text written in Samaritan script, this document was drawn up for the engagement, rather than the wedding: an introductory rhyming formula in three columns is followed by the names of the bride and groom, and the signature of the priest and the scribe.