A 7-year-old boy uncovered a 3400-year-old statuette during a trip to Tel Rehov in the Beit Shean Valley

The representatives of the Antiquities Authority awarded him a certificate of appreciation for his good citizenship 

A 3400-year-old statuette was recently discovered by a 7-year-old boy during a trip. 7-year-old Uri Grinhot, from the settlement of Tel T'avim in the Beit Shean valley, went on a trip with friends at the beginning of the week, accompanied by the father of one of the children. While climbing the Tel Rehov archaeological mound, he encountered Uri on the stone that moved to the side, and suddenly saw a figure covered in earth. Uri rubbed the mud that was stuck to the object, and thus discovered the The pottery figurine.

Moriah Greenhut, Uri's mother, says that "Uri returned home with the impressive statuette, and the excitement was great. We explained to him that it was an ancient object and that the Antiquities Network preserves the findings for the public."

The Greenhut family handed the find over to the Antiquities Authority, and representatives of the authority came to the Shaked Elementary School in Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu, in order to present Uri with a certificate of appreciation for his good citizenship and tell what is known about the statuette. Esther Ledel, the class teacher She said that "the class was amazing! The archaeologists entered the classroom during Torah class, and we just learned that Rachel stole the the therapies of Laban Abia (Genesis chapter 31). I explained that the teraps were statues used in the worship of idolatry, and suddenly, I realize that here, those teraps, right inside the classroom!"

The clay figurine is a figure of a standing naked woman, made by pressing soft clay into a mold.

Amichai Mazar, professor emeritus from the Hebrew University and head of the Tel Rehov archeological excavation expedition, examined the figurine and noted that it is "typical of the Canaanite culture of the 15th to 13th centuries CE. There are researchers who believe that the figure depicted here is a flesh-and-blood woman, and others see her as the fertility goddess Ashtoreth, known from Canaanite sources and the Bible. There is a high probability that the term "therapies" mentioned in the Bible does refer to figurines of this type." Mazar adds, that "it seems that the statuette belonged to one of the residents of the city of Rehok, which was then subject to the central government of the pharaohs of Egypt."