(CAT 227 PT; Fig. 15) Four figures of the fertility goddess Astarte at one end of the Amathus Sarcophagus

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(CAT 227 PT; Fig. 15) Four figures of the fertility goddess Astarte at one end of the Amathus Sarcophagus

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Four figures of the fertility goddess Astarte at one end of the Amathus Sarcophagus acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1874, a prominent part of the Museum’s Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Melville’s day and in ours.