Cult Object
Offering Stand
29-103-830
Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
From: Israel | Beth Shean
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 29-103-830 |
| Current Location | Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display |
| Provenience | Israel | Beth Shean |
| Archaeology Area | Level V, Room 1029, S. Temple |
| Locus | Room 1029, S. Temple on Level V |
| Period | Iron Age IB | Iron Age IIA |
| Date Made | 1150-925 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Bell shaped base, sides contracting to a sharply ribbed shoulder. Two loop handles below shoulder on which sat birds (shoulder, rim, handle and birds now missing). Between handles are four triangular apertures in which sit birds, with four snakes in relief winding up the sides of the object to the apertures. Below are four more triangular apertures containing birds. Black ware burning brown, reddish brown slip. Fragmentary and incomplete. |
| Height | 54.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 33 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928 |
| Other Number | 25-10-298 - Field No SF |
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