Tell-Ashtara (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tell-Ashtara, or Tell-'Ashtara, also A tartu, was a site south of Damascus mentioned in the Amarna letters correspondence of 1350 BC. In the Amarna letters the city is named: A tartu, and is the Biblical 'Ashtarot'. A tartu 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.