Type: Broken idol of Astarte or Ashtaroth
Age: 3000 BCE
Era: Early Bronze Age
Culture: Hittite
Excavated: Probably Hattusa
”Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm-and neither can they do any good.” Jeremiah 10:5
Astarte, Ashtaroth, Aphrodite, and Artemis all reflect the same pagan "goddess" of sex and fertility across the Near East and Europe.