Talk:Astarte

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===January 15===
====`Ashtart → Astarte or Ashtart====
I'd do this myself, except that the page histories are such a mess that my privileges aren't sufficient to sort the whole thing out.  No such thing as "ASCII spelling" exists; ASCII is an encoding mechanism, and the backtick, apparently used here to represent a glottal stop, has no meaning on its own—least of all in the English language.  The English name of this well-known deity is most commonly Astarte (through the Greek) but more accurately Ashtart; both of these are widely used by scholars and either are thoroughly acceptable to me.  ADH (t&m) 11:25, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)
:prima facie. Should go to Astarte. Rd232 00:48, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Page move

message: ====`Ashtart → Astarte or Ashtart====
I'd do this myself, except that the page histories are such a mess that my privileges aren't sufficient to sort the whole thing out.  No such thing as "ASCII spelling" exists; ASCII is an encoding mechanism, and the backtick, apparently used here to represent a glottal stop, has no meaning on its own—least of all in the English language.  The English name of this well-known deity is most commonly Astarte (through the Greek) but more accurately Ashtart; both of these are widely used by scholars and either are thoroughly acceptable to me.  ADH (t&m) 11:25, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)
:prima facie. Should go to Astarte. Rd232 00:48, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: January 15

message: I'd do this myself, except that the page histories are such a mess that my privileges aren't sufficient to sort the whole thing out.  No such thing as "ASCII spelling" exists; ASCII is an encoding mechanism, and the backtick, apparently used here to represent a glottal stop, has no meaning on its own—least of all in the English language.  The English name of this well-known deity is most commonly Astarte (through the Greek) but more accurately Ashtart; both of these are widely used by scholars and either are thoroughly acceptable to me.  ADH (t&m) 11:25, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)
:prima facie. Should go to Astarte. Rd232 00:48, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[`Ashtart]] &rarr; [[Astarte]] or [[Ashtart]]

message: Judging from the archeological context, the image used in the infobox rather obviously isn't Astarte, who is not exactly known for her association with Babylon. Joan Goodnick Westenholz identified it as completely unrelated Nanaya, see here, p. 184; the article is open access. It should be removed from the article altogether. Not every goddess is Astarte, and this one isn't even from the right part of the world.
Given the iconographic record, I would argue going with an Egyptian depiction would be a sound move for the infobox, similarly as in the case of Resheph or Hauron, since due to Egyptian artistic conventions depictions of deities are more likely to be identified with certainty, as discussed ex. by Izak Cornelius. HaniwaEnthusiast (talk) 14:10, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant image in the infobox 

message: In some cases of romanisation of Phoenician in the article, some of the vowels are spelt out and others are not: miqdōš bnʾ la-ʿAštōrt št Baʿl bnʾ bʿlʾ ha-Myddm  . This is odd and confusing and I've never seen such a thing in a proper scholarly text on the subject. It should be either a consistent transliteration with no vowels or, more problematically, a consistent transcription of the reconstructed pronunciation with all the vowels. 87.126.21.225 (talk) 21:20, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistent transliteration/transcription of Phoenician 

message: Added Voltaire's use of the name Astarté in his work Zadig to the "In popular culture section.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfryc (talk • contribs) 03:55, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voltaire's Astarté 

message: Changed Greek form of Astarte from Ασταρτη to Ἀστάρτη (added breathing and accent mark).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfryc (talk • contribs) 04:02, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrected Greek Form 

message: At the time and date I'm typing this, both "Canaanites" and "Phoenicians" have hot-links that end up in the same place:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion
If that's really the way it's supposed to be, then how about combining "Canannites and Phoenicians" into one hotlinked blue/purple phrase that leads to that link. It's rather misleading to imply that two nouns are going to link to two different articles.2600:1700:6759:B000:E894:BFCC:705D:880 (talk) 07:12, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Two words are erroneously hot-linked to the same location.