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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ATARGATIS, a Syrian deity, known to the Greeks by a shortened form of the name, Derketo (Strabo xvi. c. 785; Pliny, Nat. Hist. v. 23. 81), and as Dea Syria, or in one word Deasura (Lucian, de Dea Syria). She is generally described as the " fish-goddess." The name is a compound of two divine names; the first part is a form of the Himyaritic 'Athtar, the equivalent of the Old Testament Ashtoreth, the Phoenician Astarte (g.v.), with the feminine ending omitted (Assyr. Ishtar); the second is a Palmyrene name ' Atke (i.…
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