Some readers will recall that at a site a few hundred yards from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Kathleen Kenyon excavated several horse figurines, a few of which seem to bear sun-disks between their ears. See The Mystery of the Horses of the Sun at the Temple Entrance, BAR 04:02. Although the horses might reflect a solar cult like the one described in 2 Kings 23:11, I believe that the so-called sun disks are bizarre examples of various odd-shaped blobs found on various animal figurines in the Iron II Period. For further explanation, see my Yahweh and the Sun, pp. 5866.
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