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An outdated argument, however, postulates that Astarte's character was less erotic and more warlike than Ishtar originally was, perhaps because she was influenced by the Canaanite goddess Anat, and that therefore Ishtar, not Astarte, was the direct forerunner of the Cypriot goddess. However, evidence from Iron Age Phoenicia show that Astarte ...
The Thrones of Astarte are approximately a dozen ex-voto "cherubim" thrones found in ancient Phoenician temples in Lebanon, in particular in areas around Sidon, Tyre and Umm al-Amad. [1] Many of the thrones are similarly styled, flanked by cherubim -headed winged lions on either side. [ 2 ]
The goddess, the Queen of Heaven, whose worship Jeremiah so vehemently opposed, may have been possibly Astarte. Astarte is the name of a goddess as known from Northwestern Semitic regions, cognate in name, origin and functions with the goddess Ishtar in Mesopotamian texts.
Three of the Bodashtart inscriptions, currently on display at the Louvre. Bodashtart (also transliterated BodΚΏaštort, meaning "from the hand of Astarte"; Phoenician: π€π€π€π€π€π€π€) was a Phoenician ruler, who reigned as King of Sidon (c. 525 – c. 515 BC), the grandson of King Eshmunazar I, and a vassal of the Achaemenid Empire.
Astarte and the Sea (also pAmherst IX or simply the Astarte Papyrus) is an Egyptian hieratic tale, dating from the New Kingdom, which relates a story about the goddess Astarte and her rival Yam. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Though Astarte and Yam appear to have originated as Canaanite deities , both were, at times, worshipped in ancient Egypt as well.
In the territory of Phoenician Sidon, Lucian of Samosata (2nd century AD) was informed that the temple of Astarte, whom Lucian equated with the moon goddess, was sacred to Europa: There is likewise in Phœnicia a temple of great size owned by the Sidonians. They call it the temple of Astarte. I hold this Astarte to be no other than the moon ...
Phoenicia was then divided into four vassal kingdoms: Sidon, Tyre, Byblos and Arwad. [30] Eshmunazar II, a priest of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, became king around the same time. [31] During the early Persian period (539–486 BC), Sidon rose to power, becoming Phoenicia's pre-eminent city.
According to Joan Goodnick Westenholz, it is difficult to tell if full correspondence can be assumed to exist between Hurrian Šauška and Assyrian Ishtar of Nineveh, [14] especially in inscriptions of Shamshi-Adad I, [15] who might have introduced religious innovations in Nineveh to compete with the religious importance of the city of Assur and its manifestation of Ishtar. [16]