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George L. Kelm and Amihai Mazar, “Notes and News: Tel Batash (Timnah), 1982,” Israel Exploration Journal 33 (1983), p. 126 and esp. Plate 16:C.

Avraham Biran, “Two Discoveries at Tel Dan,” Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ) 30 (1980), p. 90.

Cf., for instance, J. Teixidor, The Pagan God, Popular Religion in the Greco-Roman Near East (Princeton, 1977), pp. 31, 86–87.

W. L. Reed, The Nature and Function of the Asherah in Israelite Religion According to Literary and Archaeological Evidence, Diss. 1942 (Ann Arbor, 1982); T. Yamashita, The Goddess Asherah, Diss. 1963 (Ann Arbor, 1982); A. L. Perlman, Asherah and Astarte in the Old Testament and Ugaritic Literatures, Diss. 1978 (Ann Arbor, 1979).

E. Lipinski, “The Goddess Atirat in Ancient Arabia, in Babylon and in Ugarit,” Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 3 (1972), pp. 101–119.

Pyrgi 1, 1, ’sûr; Umm el-Amed 4, 4: See J. C. L. Gibson, Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions III, Phoenician Inscriptions (Oxford, 1982), pp. 119–120, 154–155.

Sfiré I B 11, ’sûrthm, “their sanctuaries”: See A. Lemaire and J. M. Durand, Les inscriptions araméennes de Sfiré et l’Assyrie de Shamshi-ilu, Hautes études orientales (Geneva, 1984), pp. 114, 123.

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) A/II (1968), pp. 436–439.

Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar (Oxford, 1970), pp. 401–403.

None of the references proposed by J. R. Engle (Pillar Figurines) is certain; more probably, each one is to be explained otherwise; cf., for instance, Z. Zevit, Israel Exploration Journal 27 (1977), p. 115.