Ceramic Offering Stand from Taanach

Iron Age IIA, 10th–9th Century BCE

Ceramic offering stand with flat top and four layers of decoration: bottom layer of nude female with raised arms flanked by lions, second layer of two winged figures, third layer of goats eating leaves off tree, and fourth layer of four-legged animal with winged sun disk and palm fronds.
Please login or register for free access to Posen Library
Register
Already have an account?
Engage with this Source

Related Guide

Visual Culture and Performing Arts in Ancient Israel

Evidence for the material culture of ancient Israel comes mostly from artifacts and archaeology and attests to the influence of the great empires that surrounded Israel.

Related Guide

Provenance and Dating of Artifacts from the Biblical Period

Artifacts help historians reconstruct the past, using layers of excavation to establish the chronology of the sites they excavate.

Related Guide

Ancient Israelite Stone Pillars, Altars, and Lamps

Stone and clay pillars, altars, and lampstands provide invaluable insights into ancient Israelite religious practices and their descriptions in the Hebrew Bible.

You may also like

God’s Attributes

The Lord came down in a cloud; He stood with him there, and proclaimed the name Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed: “The Lord! the Lord!a God compassionate and gracious, slow to…
View Source
Photograph featuring women standing holding on to a subway pole.
Tooltip info icon

Subway

Over the course of five years, from 1980 to 1985, Davidson rode the subway for six hundred miles, with the aim of documenting the diversity and uniqueness of the passengers. At a time when the subway…
View Source

After Havdaleh

“ . . . And all those who are on the left side go and wander in the world and seek to dress themselves in the body.”—From Zohar Beraishit When the Havdoleh candle is extinguished, In Gehenna, the…
View Source