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The hoard was found during the 1933-34 excavation season at Tell Asmar beneath the floor of a temple dedicated to the god Abu. The statues were neatly stacked in an oblong(non-square rectangle) cavity beside an altar in the sanctuary. The careful placement suggests that they were buried intentionally.
Head of a statue from Tell Asmar, excavated by the Oriental Institute in 1933. The Sulaymaniyah Museum. During the Early Dynastic period, the Abu Temple at Tell Asmar (Eshnunna) went through a number of phases. This included the Early Dynastic Archaic Shrine, Square Temple, and Single-Shrine phases of construction. [123]
English: Sumerian Statues of worshippers (males and females) from Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna; the Square Tempe)) and Khafajah (ancient Tutub; from the Sin Temple) of Diyala region, Mesopotamia, Iraq. Early Dynastic period, c. 2800-2400 BCE.
Initially, a temple was likely constructed from perishable materials. Only fragments of stone cultic statues survive from this phase. Around three centuries later during the Hellenistic period, a larger building fronted by a paved courtyard leading into a square hall and a smaller rectangular room., replaced the original structure.
The temple had a processional way "lined with rough, megalithic stone stelai" between 2 and 3 meters in height. In an adjacent area were found a number of alabaster statue fragments of votive statues representing males with long wigs, square-cut beards and garments with fleecy fringes, the tallest being 35 centimeters. [14]
At the north-east end of the Temple is a square two-stepped base on which a votive statue probably stood. [1] During the Christian period, after the Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire, the walls of the sekos were prolonged, some repairs took place, and the temple was transformed into a Christian church. [1]
Baalshillem Temple Boy: a votive (to Eshmun) marble statue of a royal child, inscribed in Phoenician, from the Eshmun sanctuary, c. 400s BC. Baalshillem I (also transliterated Baalchillem, meaning "recompense of Baal"; Phoenician: 𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤔𐤋𐤌) was a Phoenician King of Sidon (c. 450 – c. 426 BC), and a vassal of the Achaemenid Empire.
Most of the figurines were found in the Temple of the Obelisks, in which 20 votive deposits and pitchers containing a variety of such figurines were found, along with a smaller, but important group of them found in the neighboring Temple of Baalat Gebal. [5] [1] [3] The figurines have been adopted to represent the Lebanese Tourism Ministry. [6]