Ishtar

Revision History

loadingDate    Editor    Change Summary
12/1/2024, 10:33 PM Mike C update #117
10/6/2024, 9:08 PM Mike C update #116
4/23/2024, 9:35 PM Mike C update #115
6/9/2023, 2:32 PM Mike C update #114
12/7/2022, 9:35 PM Mike C update #113
4/5/2022, 10:13 PM Mike C update #112
5/29/2020, 9:30 PM Mike C update #108
7/11/2018, 11:16 AM Mike C update #100
2/12/2007, 1:03 AM Mike C earliest recorded revision

Gender Feminine
Usage Semitic Mythology
Scripts 𒀭𒈹, 𒌋𒁯(Akkadian Cuneiform)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈɪʃ.ˌtɑɹ/(American English) /ˈɪʃ.ˌtɑː/(British English)

Meaning & History

From the Semitic root ʿṯtr, which possibly relates to the Evening Star. Ishtar was an Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess who presided over love, war and fertility. She was cognate with the Canaanite and Phoenician Ashtoreth, and she was also identified with the Sumerian goddess Inanna. Her name in Akkadian cuneiform 𒀭𒈹 was the same as the Sumerian cuneiform for Inanna.