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Lot 71W

RELIEF PHÉNICIEN EN CALCAIRE REPRÉSENTANT ASTARTÉ
Ca. VIe-IIIe siècle av. J.C.

12 December 2025, 11:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche

€8,000 - €12,000

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RELIEF PHÉNICIEN EN CALCAIRE REPRÉSENTANT ASTARTÉ
Ca. VIe-IIIe siècle av. J.C.


A PHOENICIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF OF AN ASTARTE FIGURE
Circa 6th-3rd Century B.C.
(Broken and repaired horizontally beneath the knees, restored nose, mouth and proper left breast)
51 cm (20 1/16 in.) high

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Provenance
wtih Dr Adriaensen, Brussels.
Private collection, Belgium, acquired from the above in 1969. Recorded in a March 1985 insurance document.

There is another example (in terracotta) of a Phoenician representation of the Canaaanite goddess, Astarte, shown nude with an Egyptian face and wig in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, museum no. 1990.605.

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