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8-year-old stumbles on First Temple-era archaeological find [View all]
8-year-old stumbles on First Temple-era archaeological find
Alon De Groot, an Iron Age specialist with the IAA, identified the find as the head of a fertility goddess statuette.
“Figurines such as these, in the shape of naked women representing fertility, were common in the homes of the residents of the Judean Kingdom in the 8th century BCE and until the destruction of the kingdom by the Babylonians in the days of Zedekia (in 586 BCE),” De Groot said in a statement.
Statuettes such as these help identify sites as Judean, he noted.
“It’s no coincidence that a statuette like this was found atop Tel Beit Shemesh, next to a residential quarter from the First Temple period,” Anna Eirich, an IAA archaeologist in the region, said in a statement.
Alon De Groot, an Iron Age specialist with the IAA, identified the find as the head of a fertility goddess statuette.
“Figurines such as these, in the shape of naked women representing fertility, were common in the homes of the residents of the Judean Kingdom in the 8th century BCE and until the destruction of the kingdom by the Babylonians in the days of Zedekia (in 586 BCE),” De Groot said in a statement.
Statuettes such as these help identify sites as Judean, he noted.
“It’s no coincidence that a statuette like this was found atop Tel Beit Shemesh, next to a residential quarter from the First Temple period,” Anna Eirich, an IAA archaeologist in the region, said in a statement.
We will hear great things from this eight year old some day.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/8-year-old-stumbles-on-first-temple-era-archaeological-find/
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