Female Figurines in Canaan in the Late Bronze Age /

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Author(s): and M. Tadmor
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Qadmoniot: A Journal for the Antiquities of Eretz-Israel and Bible Lands /
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Vol. No. 1 (57) / 1982), pp. 2-10 ("
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