Ashdod: Bronze Age chair figure

This miniature clay chair with breasts and head stands 7 inches high and dates to the 12th century BCE. So many fragments of other chair figures such as this were uncovered at Ashdod that they came to be called 'Ashdod' figures. They were subsequently found at other sites identified as Phoenician. The concept of the throne-seat and the stylized shape of the head is similar to late Mycenaean representations of a seated female deity found on the Greek mainland, Rhodes, and Cyprus.