Religious Practices and Cult Objects during the Iron Age IIA at Tel Rehov and their Implications regarding Religion in Northern Israel

This article presents evidence relating to religious practices, cult objects and iconography revealed in the excavations at Tel Rehov in the Jordan Valley and dated to the 10th-9th centuries B.C.E. This evidence includes an open-air sanctuary, pottery altars, a model shrine, clay figurines, amulets, seals and a few inscriptions. Two buildings of special significance are also discussed and interpreted.