Tell Ashtara is an archaeological mound south of Damascus. The Bronze Age city that once stood here may have been mentioned in the Amarna letters correspondence of 1350 BC as Aštartu, and is usually identified with the Biblical city of Ashtaroth.
Tell Ashtara
Ashteroth Relief at the British Museum
Ashteroth Relief at the British Museum
Image: Ashteroth 1
Ashteroth Karnaim, also rendered as Ashtaroth Karnaim, was a city in Bashan east of the Jordan River.
The capture of the city of "Astartu" (thought to be Ashteroth in the land of king Og of Bashan, east of the Jordan River), by the Neo-Assyrian emperor Tiglath-Pileser III about 730–727 BCE, as depicted on a palace relief now kept on display at the British Museum.