701254 Sacred architecture: model shrine, Yavneh (ceramic) by Iron Age (9th Century BC); The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; (add.info.: This model was buried in a pit outside a Philistine shrine together with other, similar models. Worshippers 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.); 穢 Israel Museum, Jerusalem ; The Ridgefield Foundation, New York, in memory of Henry J. and Erna D. Leir ; Israeli, out of copyright.