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{{Short description|Semitic goddess, variant of Ishtar}}
{{Middle Eastern deities}}
'''Ishtarat''' was a [[Semitic people|Semitic]] deity worshipped in the city of [[Mari, Syria]].{{sfn|Haldar|1971|p= [https://books.google.com/books?id=S88UAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA16 16]}} Her temple was found in 1952.
Ishtarat was most probably a variant of [[Ishtar]],{{sfn|Parrot|1960|p= 348}} who was worshipped beside Ishtarat in Mari.{{sfn|Bryce|2009|p= [https://books.google.com/books?id=E1aF0hq1GR8C&pg=PA450 450]}}
==References==
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===Sources===
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*{{cite book|title=Who Were the Amorites?|first= Alfred|last=Haldar|publisher=Brill|year=1971|volume=1|series=Monographs on the ancient Near East|oclc= 2656977}}
*{{cite book|title=Sumer: the Dawn of Art|first= André|last=Parrot|publisher=Golden Press|year=1960|volume=1|series=Arts of mankind|oclc= 894314358}}
*{{cite book|title= The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia|first= Trevor|last=Bryce|publisher= Routledge|year= 2009 |isbn= 978-1-134-15908-6}}
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[[Category:Fertility goddesses]]
[[Category:Levantine mythology]]
[[Category:Love and lust goddesses]]
[[Category:West Semitic goddesses]]
[[Category:Inanna]]
[[Category:Mari, Syria]]