Sacred architecture: model shrine

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* Wed, Nov 11, 10 am - 1 pm The Shrine of the Book will be closed to visitors
* The exhibitions: Gil Marco Shani: Buses and To Go: New Designs for Jewish Ritual Objects will be closed to visitors until further notice

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Tues, 4.12 (2nd day Hanukkah) 10 am - 9 pm
Sat, 8.12 10:30 am - 4 pm
Hanukkah - 2-10.12, Free entrance for children under 18 in memory Bessie Rose Guberman, Canada

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Israelite & Persian Periods
Sacred architecture: model shrine

Sacred architecture: model shrine

Yavneh

Iron Age II, 9th century BCE

Pottery

Israel Antiquities Authority

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.