Disposable Gods
By DANIEL WEISS
Monday, August 14, 2017
While excavating a refuse pit containing a mélange of burned animal bones, grape seeds, olive pits, and chickpeas, archaeologists working in the ancient Phoenician town of Porphyreon in present-day Lebanon also retrieved fragments of several ceramic female heads dating to around 2,400 years ago. The researchers, from the Polish Center of Mediterranean Archaeology, reassembled the fragments and found that the heads measured around nine inches tall and six inches wide. Small holes near the top of the most complete specimen indicate it may have been hung on a wall.
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/269-1709/from-the-trenches/5822-trenches-lebanon-phoenician-ceramic-heads
