Ta'anakh cult stand

The fenestrated (window-bearing[3]) stand is one of the most important archaeological discoveries for the study of ancient Near Eastern religions, especially the cults of Yahweh and his consort[4] Asherah.

They are clearly connected with Late Bronze and Early Iron Age traditions, showing continuity of worship of the goddess Asherah ("known all over the Levant as the Lion Lady") in Israel during the 10th century.

The Lachish cult stand was found with a limestone altar and massebot in a small cultic room associated with a public shrine.

Some suggest the windows (this is a fenestrated cult stand, in antiquarian jargon) are in fact voids, i.e.: where God is not shown, as aniconism would rise later from the Babylonian captivity to the Maccabean period.

On the upper (IV) storey is the divine sun with a horse, showing[4] a solar-equine motif as central that would persist in Hebrew Zodiac art into the common era.

Ta'anach altar A, in the Israel Museum, is tapered like the letter A, while stand B in Turkey is boxier.
Cultic incense stand found at Ta'anach (a site on the rim of the Jezreel Valley close to Megiddo) dated to the time of Israelite occupation in the tenth century BCE. [ 1 ]
Asherah is shown in humanlike and tree form. "In the centre of the bottom register stands a naked goddess, controlling, one with each hand, two flanking lions." [ 2 ]