Figure of "Pedestal" type of female
Medium:Ceramic (earthenware)
Geography: Beth Shemesh, Israel
Date: 6th century BC
Period: Iron Age III Period
Dimensions:15.4 × 6.7 × 4.3 cm
Object number: 910.114.19
Gallery Location:Wirth Gallery of the Middle East
Object History: Purchased by the ROM in 1907 from Frederick Vester & Co. of the American Colony in Jerusalem, who had purchased the object in "Beitter" (presumably Battir, Palestine) from someone who said it was found in "Beit Shems, Ancient Beth Shemish" (presumably Beit Shemesh, Israel).