God · Canaanite
Astarte
Astarte, a god of the Canaanite world, and the gods ancient sources said were the same.
Tradition: canaanite
Documented identifications
| Link | Who said so | Note |
|---|---|---|
| identified as Aphrodite | Herodotus, Histories 1.105, c. 430 BCE | The temple of Heavenly Aphrodite at Ascalon was, Herodotus heard, the mother of her temples in Cyprus and Cythera, founded by Phoenicians. |
| identified as Inanna (Ishtar) | God lists from Ugarit and Emar, 14th-13th c. BCE | Syrian scribes listed the West Semitic Ashtart as the counterpart of Ishtar and often did not distinguish them. |
| identified as Isis | Phoenician and Punic cult, from the 6th c. BCE | From at least the 6th century BCE Phoenicians identified Ashtart with Isis, a link that lasted into Roman North Africa. |
| identified as Uni | Pyrgi Tablets, Caere, c. 500 BCE | The gold tablets of Pyrgi, in Etruscan and Phoenician, dedicate one shrine to Uni in the one text and to Ashtart in the other. |
| identified as Juno | Tas-Silg temple, Malta, 5th-1st c. BCE; Cicero | The Maltese sanctuary of Ashtart was identified with Hera and then Juno, so Cicero called it the temple of Juno. |
| identified as Shaushka | Ugaritic texts, 13th c. BCE | Some Ugaritic texts equate Ashtart with the Hurrian goddess Shaushka. |