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Astarte

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by Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 16 September 2014

Astarte by John Singer Sargent, 1890-95 CE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Astarte, the Mesopotamian goddess of war and fertility, is also known as Ishtar and Inanna.

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© Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Republished for educational/scholarly use under the museum's Open Access for Scholarly Content initiative. Original image by Metropolitan Museum of Art. Uploaded by Karen Barrett-Wilt, published on 16 September 2014 under the following license: Copyright. You cannot use, copy, distribute, or modify this item without explicit permission from the author. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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