Astarte
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Astarte is the Hellenized form of the Ancient Near Eastern goddess ʿAṯtart. ʿAṯtart was the Northwest Semitic equivalent of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar.
Phoenician statuette figurine of ʿAštart from El Carambolo in Spain
A mask from 4th century BC Carthage of an androgynous, bearded individual, has been argued to be Astarte
Archer Astarte riding a horse on an Egyptian stele
Standard naked idols from Israel and Judea
Canaanite religion
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The religion and mythic beliefs of the people in the land of Canaan in the southern Levant during approximately the first three millennia BCE were polytheistic and in some cases monolatristic. They we
Astarte
…worshipped from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity, and her name is particularly associated with her worship in the ancient Levant among the Canaanites and Phoenicians, though she was originally associated with Amorite cities like Ugarit and Emar, as well as Mari and Ebla. She was also celebrated in…
Ba'al with Thunderbolt stele from Ugarit, c. 15th century BCE
Putative statuette of El (c. 1400–1200 BCE) from Tel Megiddo in northern Israel