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Jar with five openings from stratum X temple at Tell Qasile

COURTESY MUZA-ERETZ ISRAEL MUSEUM, PHOTO G. WINITZKI

STRANGER THINGS. From the final phase of cultic activity at Tell Qasile comes a vase with one central and four peripheral openings decorated with a painted frieze of closed and opened plants (perhaps sacred trees), reminiscent of ceremonial depictions in wall paintings from the Bronze Age city of Mari in eastern Syria.