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Terracotta Statuette of Aphrodite

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Terracotta Statuette of Aphrodite
Terracotta Statuette of Aphrodite
Aphrodite in situ
Aphrodite in situ

A terracotta statuette of the goddess Aphrodite from the Hellenistic period found in a cave on Israel’s Carmel Range and used in pagan worship which Antiochus IV sought to impose on the Jews.


Pearlman, Moshe, The Macabees. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973.


See also:

Aphrodite, 2nd century CE