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Ceramic Offering Stand from Ai
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This stand is 26 inches (66 cm) high and open at the top and bottom. It has four rows of windows and five feet, with five toes each, protruding near the bottom (three of the feet are visible in the…

Places:

Ai, Land of Israel (Khirbat at Tall, West Bank)

Date:

Iron Age I, 12th–10th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Sacrifice

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects
Ceramic offering stand with four rows of windows and small protruding feet with five toes on the bottom row of windows.
Ceramic Offering Stand from Taanach
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This 21-inch-high (54 cm) stand was made in the ajouré (open-spaced) style and finished to look like bronze. In the bottom register, a nude female with raised arms (a fertility goddess?) touches the…

Places:

Taanach, Land of Israel (Tall Ti‘innik, West Bank)

Date:

Iron Age IIA, 10th–9th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Sacrifice, Ritual object, Animals, Angels, demons & deities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects
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.
Model Shrine from Tirzah
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This terra-cotta model of a shrine from Tirzah stands 8 inches (21 cm) tall. The façade has an entrance with a grooved threshold flanked by fluted pilasters, with inward-curling volute capitals topped…

Places:

Tirzah, Land of Israel (Tell el-Far'ah, West Bank)

Date:

Iron Age IIA, 10th–9th Century BCE

Subjects:

Temple, Ritual object, Archaeology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Ritual Objects
Limestone triple-recessed door frame with row of protruding roof beams.