Statuette of Astarte or Aphrodite
Astarte was a goddess popular throughout the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean and later adopted by the Greeks as ‘Aphrodite’. This statue fragment is carved from fine limestone from Cyprus.
It belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Montague who collected over 800 classical archaeological objects, which he bequeathed to the museum on his death.
It belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Montague who collected over 800 classical archaeological objects, which he bequeathed to the museum on his death.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/571
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Montague, LAD, Lieutenant Colonel
- Material
- stonelimestone
- Common Name
- statuette of Astarte or Aphrodite
- Simple Name
- figurine
- Period Classification
- Archaic - 1100-500 BC
