Sacred architecture: model shrine
Pottery
IAA:
2006-1011
Archaeology/Israelite & Persian Periods
This model was buried in a pit outside a Philistine shrine together with other, similar models. Worshipers brought them there as gifts to the gods. When too many accumulated, they were removed, intentionally broken so that they could not be reused for secular purposes, and carefully buried. The function of these objects is not clear.
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