371, Lot: 1187. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Terra cotta Ashtoreth pillar figurine. Israel, Iron Age II, 1000-586 BC. Standing pillar figure with arms beneath large breasts. Classic, well-coifed hair.
Height: 15.5cm. Repaired and restored, but mostly 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.