Tell Ashtara also Aštartu, was a site south of Damascus mentioned in the Amarna letters correspondence of 1350 BC. In the Amarna letters the city is named Aštartu, and is usually identified with the Biblical ‘Ashteroth Karnaim’.
Aštartu is only referenced in two letters of the 382 letter corpus, in letters EA 256, and EA 197: (titled: “Biryawaza’s plight”), -(EA is for ‘el Amarna’). Biryawaza was the mayor of Damascus-called Dimasqu.
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Keywords: Ashtaroth, Astaroth, Ashteroth-karnaim, Tel Ashtara, Tell Ashtara, Karnaim
Bible reference(s): Deut 1:4, Josh 9:10, Josh 12:4, Josh 13:12, Josh 13:31, 1 Chr 6:71
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