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JPF (music)
JPF may refer to one of the following * Judean pillar figure *Journeyman Pipefitter * Japonica Polonica Fantastica *Java Pathfinder, a system to verify executable Java bytecode programs *Jeunesse Populaire Française, a French youth fascist organization of 1940s *JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 (JP2) is an image compression standard and coding system. It was developed from 1997 to 2000 by a Joint Photographic Experts Group committee chaired by Touradj Ebrahimi (later the JPEG president), with the intention of superseding the ..., a digital image format (file extension .jpf) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judean Pillar Figure
Judean pillar figures or figurines were ubiquitous household items in the Iron Age representing the Canaanite great goddess Asherah. Details Scholarly consensus has categorized the figurines as the Canaanite great goddess Asherah. Dissenting from this view, Erin Darby suggests other possible identifications. They show her with some facial detail, protruding breasts, and completely plain cylindrical bodies below. Surely popular, they were often handmade and sometimes crude, but that led to a diversity of style. It also allowed them currency over a longer period of time, unlike the more sophisticated but then-late Revadim Asherah whose examples were mass-produced in the productive milieu leading up to the Bronze collapse. Pillar figures are first found in small numbers around Judah in the 10th century BCE, then grew somewhat in geographic distribution and greatly in attestation. A single archaeological site could reveal them in the hundreds like in Jerusalem, or over a tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
