Ashtoret
Ashtoret
(Phenician: Ashtoret, Astarte)
A Syro-Phenician female deity worshipped at Sidon and Tyre, in Carthage , Cyprus, and even Britain. She has been identified with the Babylonian goddess Ishtar, the Grecian Aphrodite, and the Latin Venus, and was regarded as the goddess of love and fecundity. In 4 Kings 28, she is described as the “idol of the Sidonians.”