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Discovered in the nineteenth century, it was published in Paris in 1908. The sculpture served as a votive offering, a tangible prayer to a deity—probably Aphrodite, whose worship was widespread on Cyprus, where she was associated with the Semitic goddess Ishtar/Astarte. The veiled woman, possibly a priestess, wears a beaded choker, ear ornaments, and a garlanded diadem, on which traces of paint survive. 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