JPFs: More Questions than Answers

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Archaeology is full of puzzles, as BAR readers are well aware. I would like to discuss here some figurines that proliferated in Judah during the First Temple period; they have puzzled me for a long time. They are known as JPFs, and more than a thousand have been found to date.

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Endnotes

1. Raz Kletter, The Judean Pillar-Figurine and the Archaeology of Asherah, BAR International Series 636 (Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1996).