Jerusalem: A Seven year kid found a 3,400-year-old Canaanite statue of a naked woman during a hike in the Jordan Valley in northern Isreal.
The boy found the image of a person covered with soil on an outing at the archaeological site of Tel Rehov. According to archaeological authorities, the stone is small enough to fit in hand. After wiping off the mud the stone appeared to be a naked woman with braided hair, standing with her arms to the side and hands on hips.
“It is typical of the Canaanite culture of the 15th-13th centuries BC,” said Amihai Mazar, excavation director of Tel Rehov. While “some researchers think the figure depicted here is that of a real flesh and blood woman, and others view her as the fertility goddess Astarte, known from Canaanite sources and from the Bible,” he said in a statement distributed by the IAA.
“Evidently the figurine belonged to one of the residents of the city of Rehov, which was then ruled by the central government of the Egyptian pharaohs,” Mazar said.
