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Astartu

a Pleiades name resource

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Name of a city in the region of Damascus mentioned in an inscription (one-word epigraph) of the eighth-century-BC Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III. Astartu is identified with classical Astaroth, biblical ʿaštārōt, and phoenician ʿštrt.

Astartu


Akkadian

geographic name

accurate

complete

Less certain

  • Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)

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