Cult Object
Offering Stand
29-103-807
Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
From: Israel | Beth Shean
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 29-103-807 |
| Current Location | Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display |
| Provenience | Israel | Beth Shean |
| Archaeology Area | Level V, Room 1021 A, floor level, S. Temple |
| Locus | Room 1021 A, floor level, S. Temple on Level V |
| Period | Iron Age IB | Iron Age IIA |
| Date Made | 1150-925 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Iconography | House |
| Description | Oblong in plan, in 2 stages, coming to arounded top ornamented with 3 birds. On upper stage each long side is open with full length nude figure looking outwards. One of the figures is shown holding a bird (dove?) under each arm; the arms and legs of the other figure are missing. Each short side (one broken away) had a window. Lower stage has 1 window on each short side, and 2 windows on each long side with a snake winding up on each of the long sides between the windows. Black ware burning brown, fragmentary and incomplete. |
| Height | 50 cm |
| Length | 22 cm |
| Width | 17.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928 |
| Other Number | 25-9-636 - Field No SF |
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