LC control no. | n 2016036345 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Astarte (Phoenician deity) |
Variant(s) | Ashtoreth (Phoenician deity) Ashtaroth (Phoenician deity) Athtart (Phoenician deity) |
See also | Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian deity) |
Associated country | Phoenicia |
Found in | Bonnet, C. Astarte, 1996. Encarta Encyclopedia WWW site, Nov. 8, 2000 (Astarte, Greek and Roman name of Ashtoreth, the supreme female divinity of the Phoenician nation, the goddess of love and fruitfulness. The name is frequently found in the earlier books of the Old Testament in the plural form of Ashtaroth. The Babylonian and Assyrian counterpart of Astarte was Ishtar) Britannica Macro.: v. 17, p. 968 (Astarte (Ashtoreth in the Old Testament) is a goddess of love and war, the approximate equivalent of Mesopotamian Ishtar) Transformation of a goddess, 2014: t.p. (Astarte) Wilson-Wright, Aren M. Athtart, 2016. Wikipedia, viewed June 27, 2022: (entry under Astarte = Athtart = Ashtart) |
Invalid LCCN | sh 00008796 |