2500 BCE Goddess Ishtar, Astarte, Mesopotamia, Early Babylonian, Bird Head of Earliest Ishtar on record

An exceptionally finely detailed Old Babylonian votive pottery figurine of the goddess Astarte depicted naked. With her hands held clasped to the front below her breasts and wears an ornate headdress. The reverse is flat, unmodelled.
Supplied with a plexi stand (height with stand 11.7 cms).

Astarte is the Hellenized name associated with the chief goddess or female divinity of the Near Eastern peoples, also known as Ishtar (Akkadian), Astarte (Phoenician), or Inanna (Sumerian). She 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.

Ancient Near East: Circa 2nd half of the 2nd millennium BC.

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