Pleasure before Duty: Playing and Studying in the Cultic Context of Kharayeb
Among the terracotta figurines discovered in the cult place of Kharayeb (7th-1st centuries BCE), located in the hinterland of Tyre (Lebanon), a very high percentage dates back to the Hellenistic period and presents images of children, adolescents and women.Considering these data, some scholars have supposed that a god linked to childhood and mother