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Amihai Mazar

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

Section: Articles
Volume 4 (2015) / Issue 1, pp. 25-55 (31)
Published 09.07.2018
DOI 10.1628/219222715X14343676549142
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Summary
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.