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CLAY FIGURE OF A STANDING ASTARTE “FERTILITY GODDESSâ€
MESOPOTAMIA, OLD BABYLONIAN, 1800 B.C.
Dimensions:
Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 3.5 cm
Height on stand: 14.5 cm
Ishtar (Akkadian), Astarte (Phoenician), or Inanna (Sumerian) was the most important female deity in Mesopotamia through the second millennium BC. She was identified with the planet Venus, and the sunrise. She was the goddess of both sexual love and warfare. The Greeks identified her with Aphrodite.
Condition: Lower part is missing in antiquity otherwise intact with sharp details as shown
Nicely mounted on an acrylic "Plaxi-Glass" display stand
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# 9657
Antiquities
Ancient Near East
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