Terracotta Fertility goddess, Ishtar (Astarte), Old Babylonian, c2000 BC. Artist: Unknown.

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Terracotta Fertility goddess, Ishtar (Astarte), Old Babylonian, c2000 BC. Ishtar was the Mesopotamian goddess of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, combat, and political power. At Archaeological Museum, Istanbul.

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