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Discovered at Kuntillet Ajrud, this is 1 of 3 Hebrew inscriptions pairing Yahweh with the goddess Asherah, 4 times. 

 Although a southern complex under Israelite control, analysis of storage jars reveal they were produced around Jerusalem, affirming Kuntillet Ajrud had a southern and northern presence. 

"Asherah and the Asherim: Goddess or Cult Symbol?"

"While some readers might find the idea that Yahweh had a wife disturbing, it was common in the ancient world to believe that gods married and even bore children.
This popular connection between Yahweh and Asherah, and the eventual purging of Asherah from the Israelite cult, is likely a reflection of the emergence of monotheism from the Israelites’ previous polytheistic worldview."

This quote is from Ellen White’s* Biblical Archaeology Society article at http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/asherah-and-the-asherim-goddess-or-cult-symbol/

*Hebrew Bible Ph. D. Professor at University of St. Michael's College 

This clay plaque of the Naked Goddess Asherah represents the Bountiful Earth and the Feminine Principle of Nature.

“The nakedness of the goddess is indicative of her
emanating power, on the basis of which she is sought out as one who can bring a blessing to those who worship her.”

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Discovered at Khirbet el-Qom and dating to ~750-700 BCE, a Paleo-Hebrew inscription is depicted above a blessing hand. The Israelite bench tomb inscription invokes the goddess Asherah with Yahweh 3 separate times. 

Although a proclaimed bachelor god, this blessing inscription is yet another pairing Yahweh with "his Asherah."

For more information on the archaeology confirming Asherah as God’s wife see http://www.wifeofyahweh.com/ archaeological-evidence.

A personification of the goddess Asherah, this drawing was discovered on a 3-foot storage jar at Kuntillet Ajrud.* It depicts nibbling ibexes flanking a stylized, sacred tree,** all positioned above the back of striding lion.

The ancients would have immediately identified this symbolism with the goddess Asherah.The ibexes-flanking-and-nibbling-on-a-sacred-tree is an established Asherah motif throughout ancient Palestinian pottery. It dates back over 1,000 years before Kuntillet Ajrud's drawings.

The stylized sacred tree** is Asherah's sacred Tree of Life/Tree of Knowledge (the Pomegranate Tree^). Throughout antiquity, stylized, sacred trees were called asherahs after the goddess Asherah (reflected also in biblical text).
Epithets of Asherah include "Lion Lady," and "the One of the Lion." The lion was one of Asherah's ancient epiphanies and serves as the foundation of this configuration.
  The numerous references to Asherah presented here, provide a window into the past and a clue to understanding the importance of Asherah worship in a forgotten time long ago.
 *an Israelite-Judean Sinai way-station with an attached shrine and "religious center." (Although a southern complex under Israelite control, neutron analysis of Ajrud's storage jars reveal they were produced by Judeans around the Jerusalem area, affirming it had a far reaching northern presence also.)
**Fossilized chunks of wood, discovered at Israelite, archaeological sites, were initiallyidentified as "posts" and "tree trunks." 
Scholars have recently re-identified these remains as "Asherah-images."
^As the "Source of All Life," to eat the fruit of the pomegranate tree was to "become one with the goddess" in communion. A tradition continued today by Catholics as they receive the body of Christ in communion. 
 More information of Asherah and the Kuntillet Ajrud drawings can be found here at http://www.wifeofyahweh.com/archaeological-evidence or in History’s Vanquished Goddess ASHERAH!