Pyrgi Tablets
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The Pyrgi Tablets are three golden plates inscribed with a bilingual Phoenician–Etruscan dedicatory text. They are the oldest historical source documents from Italy, predating Roman hegemony, and are
The Pyrgi Tablets, sheets of gold with a bilingual treatise in Etruscan and Phoenician
Lamine d'oro in lingua etrusca e fenicia con dedica di un luogo sacro a pyrgi A
Pyrgi tablets A
Lamine d'oro in lingua etrusca e fenicia con dedica di un luogo sacro a pyrgi B
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.
Pyrgi Tablets
…Pyrgi, on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy in Latium (Lazio). The text records the foundation of a temple and its dedication to the Phoenician goddess Astarte, who is identified with the Etruscan supreme goddess Uni in the Etruscan text. The temple's construction is attributed to Thefarie Velianas, ruler of…
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