Fragments of clay statues of Ishtar (ca. 1,000 BCE) from Marlik at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California.  Small statues of the goddess were often broken and buried before the doorway of a newly married couple's household as a good luck ritual.
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