RT Article
T1 An Iron Age Figurine from Tel Halif
JF Bulletin of ASOR
VO 269
SP 59
OP 64
A1 Dessel, J. P.
LA English
PB The University of Chicago Press
YR 1988
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1789814189
AB In 1980 a clay figurine was found at Tel Halif, in an Iron Age I context. Both the figurine and its archaeological findspot are distinct and provocative. The figurine was found in a stone-lined, plaster-floored bin, filled with a fine gray ash and a large number of animal bones. The figurine, its head broken off in antiquity, was burned on its back. Although no close parallels could be found for the figurine, it uses decorative motifs known throughout the Near East in the third and second millennia B. C. The decorative schema on the front at first appears random. However, closer analysis reveals distinct patterns. These patterns fit a tradition common to portrayals of goddesses. Thus, the Halif figurine should be understood as a highly stylized representation of a goddess.
DO 10.2307/1356950