Astarte Plaques from Alalakh, naked female breast

European Museums, The British Museum

6-8 Astarte Plaques from Alalakh

Such plaques were probably intended as votive offerings and may depict a nude votaress. They are more usually regarded, however, as representing the goddess Astarte

(6) and (7) Terracotta from Level V

(1570 - 1500 B.C.)

WA 126080, 130061


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Astarte Plaques from Alalakh
Taken on  Monday 17th of August 2015
Device: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
Model: SP800UZ
Genre:  1570 - 1500 B.C.
Source:  London, United Kingdom

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