Offering Stand from Beth Shean in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, November 2009

Offering Stand
Ceramic
Beth Shean, stratum V, south temple
Iron IB, 1150-1000 BCE
# 29-103-830

This offering stand is decorated with birds and snakes. These animals commonly appear on ritual objects throughout the eastern Mediterranean, though their symbolic significance remains unknown.

Text from the U. Penn. Museum label.