371, Lot: 1186. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Terra cotta Ashtoreth pillar figurine. Israel, Iron Age II, 1000-586 BC. Standing pillar figure with arms beneath large breasts. Height: 15.5cm. Broken at base, repaired and restored, although the head and much of the body appears to be original. Cf. A. Mazar, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 BCE (1990), pp. 501-502.

From the Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection.