>>10344952Image on a pithos sherd found at Kuntillet Ajrud below the inscription "Yahweh and his Asherah".[62] The two standing figures are sometimes seen as a representation of the divine couple, while the seated lyre player behind them is an entertainer.[63] Alternatively, many art historians identify the standing figures as representations of the Egyptian dwarf-god Bes, on account of their distinctively bovine faces.[63] Ziony Zevit has argued that Yahweh was represented as a Bes-figure, though there is little evidence for this.[63] It is also possible that the images on the pot have nothing to do with the inscription at all.[63]
