Fragments of clay statues of Goddess <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar" class="extiw" title="w:Ishtar">w:Ishtar</a> (ca. 1,000 BCE) from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlik" class="extiw" title="w:Marlik">w:Marlik</a> 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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