During the period of the Assyrian invasions, Phoenician clay artists developed a new image of the fertility goddess, who was usually depicted as a naked young woman supporting her breasts with both hands as a sign of her nurturing capacity. This new type, which remained popular until the Persian period (cf. cat. 518-529), shows her dressed, her head modestly covered with a veil, but undoubtedly pregnant. She is usually seated on a throne with armrests, her feet resting on a small bench. The Latin name given her (a nod to the Whilhelm Jensen's novel and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytical study) refers both to her pregnancy and to the city of Tyre, together with the neighbouring city-state of Sidon, one of the most important production centres of this type of figurines. Elsewhere in the Mediterranean world, such as Cyprus and Carthage, identical figurines bear witness to an early phase of Phoenician expansion. E.G.