Palestinian figurines in relation to certain goddesses known through literature
By: by James B. Pritchard
Series: American oriental series -- v. 24
Publisher: Kraus
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Terra-cotta sculpture; Gods in literature; Gods in art; Antiquities; Terra-cotta
Notes: Reprint of the 1943 ed. published by American Oriental Society, New Haven, Conn.

Original ed. issued also as thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Introduction; title: II. Catalog of figurines and plaques of the nude female figure; title: III. Discussion of the types; title: IV. The principal female deities of Palestine according to literary sources; title: Asherah; title: Ashtart; title: Note on Athtar; title: Anat; title: V. Note on the identification of the nude figure; title: Appendix:; title: Athirat in the 1929 texts and mythological texts from Ras Shamra; title: Athtart and Athtar in the Ras Shamra texts; title: Ashtart in Phoenician inscriptions; title: Names compounded with Ashtart in Phoenician inscriptions; title: Anat int he Ras Shamra texts.