text: In the 5th century BC, under the Achaemenid Empire, a shrine dedicated to  existed in the Sharon Plain in Canaan, at a location corresponding to the present-day Israeli town of Elyakhin, where he was worshipped by Phoenicians, Aramaeans, and Arabs.
  Arabian units of the Achaemenid army stationed in Canaan during the 5th century BC who participated in the cult of  have left inscriptions recording his name, suffixed with a mimation to differentiate him from the Canaanite feminine form of ʿAṯtar,  (), in the Phoenician and Aramaic scripts as  and  (). This form of the god's name was distinctly North Arabian, showing that the worshippers who had left these inscriptions were originally from North Arabia, possibly from Taymāʿ or Dadān.
  In Moab
  ʿAštar was attested among the Canaanite people of the Moabites during the 9th century BC, when he was identified with the patron god of Moab,  (), in the form of  ().
  According to the inscription of the Moabite king Mōšaʿ on the victory stele commemorating his triumph in a war against the Israelites, he had sacrificed the whole population of the town of Nebo to ʿAštar-Kamōš. This was likely due to the influence of the South Arabian ʿAṯtar-Šariqān, that is of ʿAštar's hypostasis as an avenger deity who was invoked in curses against enemies.
  Legacy
  In popular culture
  ʿAštar appears as the demon Ashtar in the video game Shin Megami Tensei II.