During excavations at Tell Arqa in Lebanon, at Tell Kazel and at the nearby port of Mintar in the Syrian part of the Akkar Plain, terracotta figurines were found in sanctuaries that include pregnant goddesses seated on thrones. This is a typical regional production which was not reproduced in other centres of the Phoenician coast. As in the sites mentioned, this figurine wears an high crown similar to the White Crown of Upper Egypt and was incorporated into the art of the Levantine city-states already at the beginning of the 2nd millennium as a crown reserved for gods and sovereigns (called the lebbadé by analogy with the felt hats of the Druze). The goddess' throne, supported only by three legs, is of an archaic type not found in any of the sites excavated so far. It is therefore probably a chance find from an as yet unknown, fourth centre of the Akkar plain. E.G.