A culture very much related to that of the Cyclades existed in the Levant during the later Neolithic period. A preference for highly schematic and reductive figurines, predominantly female, is also very common to both. These female figurines represent in all probability the Mother Goddess and are linked to notions of fertility, while their schematic simplicity can be traced back to the Neolithic Age, when they were made in a variety of materials. The fact that such figurines have been unearthed in urban surroundings and small domestic shrines suggests that they were used for daily worship purposes.

In the Levant, this style of figure continued, with regional variations, long after neighboring Mediterranean cultures adopted more naturalistic or elaborate styles. These sculptures represent some of the earliest attempts to represent human figures. The present figurine has abstract iconographical characteristics, focussed on prominent hips in an hour-glass figure, almost complete absence of neck besides a thin cut, and a large breast with arms outstretched in the typical cruciform figure. Simplified yet elegant expression of the pubic triangle.

Dimensions given without mounting.