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Small Ceramic Altar from Hazor
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This square altar from Hazor is 12 inches (30 cm) high. The offering surface is recessed, and the upper corners have horns that would have held the offering in place.

Places:

Hazor, Land of Israel (Tel Hazor, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age IIA, 10th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Sacrifice, Animals, Ritual objects

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Ritual Objects
Square ceramic altar with recessed offering surface decorated with crosshatching and circles and horns on four upper corners.
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 objects, Animals, Angels, demons & deities

Categories:

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.
Altar of Hewn Sandstone (Ashlars) from Beersheba
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This altar is approximately 3.5 feet (1.1 m) tall and 5 feet (1.5 m) square. The protrusions at its upper corners are reminiscent of the “horns” of the Tabernacle altar (see “The Tabernacle”)…

Places:

Beersheba, Land of Israel (Beersheba, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age IIB, 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Sacrifice, Temple, Animals, Ritual objects

Categories:

Ritual Objects
Reconstructed stone altar with horns at four upper corners.