Byblos figurines
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The Byblos figurines or Phoenician statuettes are approximately 1,500–2,000 ex-voto statuettes found in ancient Phoenician temples in Lebanon, primarily in Byblos, but also in Kamid al lawz. The statuettes date to the second millennium BC and are made of bronze, silver, or copper alloy.[1][2][3] The Byblos figurines are considered to represent the best example of their kind across the Levant.[4][2]
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]