More on that bearded figurine

THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: The Bearded Figure Who Might be King (Naama Yahalom-Mack).Figurines are not uncommon in the Southern Levant, but few can be plausibly suggested to be of kings. But Tel Abel Beth Maacah, a 35-acre site in northernmost Israel that was settled throughout the Bronze and Iron Ages, may have produced just such an image.Could be. But it sounds as though iconography