Queen-consort of Sidon, co-regent with her son Eshmunazar II
The name Amoashtart (’M‘ŠTRT) on the sarcophagus of her son Eshmunazar II.
Queen of Sidon
Reign
c. 539 BC – c. 525 BC
Predecessor
Tabnit I (spouse and brother)
Successor
Bodashtart
Spouse
Tabnit I
Phoenician language
𐤀𐤌𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕
Dynasty
Eshmunazar I dynasty
Religion
Canaanite polytheism
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Amoashtart (Phoenician: 𐤀𐤌𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 *ʾAmīʿaštārt, "my mother is Astarte") was a Phoenician queen of Sidon during the Persian period. She was the daughter of Eshmunazar I, and the wife of her brother, Tabnit. When Tabnit died, Amoashtart became co-regent to her then-infant son, Eshmunazar II, but after the boy died "in his fourteenth year",[1] she was succeeded by her nephew Bodashtart, possibly in a palace coup. Modern historians have characterized her as an "energetic, responsible [woman], and endowed with immense political acumen, [who] exercised royal functions for many years".[2]
The only source for her biography is the sarcophagus of her son.
father King Tabnit and to a woman, possibly Eshmunazar's mother Queen Amoashtart, it was likely carved in Egypt from local amphibolite, and captured as...
before the birth of his son. Tabnit I was succeeded by his sister-wife Amoashtart who ruled alone until Eshmunazar II's birth, and then acted as his regent...
BC Eshmunazar I c. 549–539 BC Tabnit I c. 539–525 BC Eshmunazar II; Amoashtart (Amastoreth, interregnum until Eshmunazar's majority) c. 525–515 BC Bodashtart...
fathered Eshmunazar II from his sister Amoashtart. Tabnit died before the birth of Eshmunazar II, and Amoashtart ruled in the interlude until the birth...
fathered Eshmunazar II from his sister Amoashtart. Tabnit died before the birth of Eshmunazar II, and Amoashtart ruled in the interlude until the birth...
"priest of ʿAštart," his mother Amoashtart was "priestess of ʿAštart." Before his death, Eshmunazar II and Amoashtart had built a sanctuary of ʿAštart...
his half-sisters Peksater and Khensa Shebitku and his half-sister Arty Amoashtart and her brother Tabnit Artemisia II of Caria and her full brother Mausolus...
new sarcophagus may have been ordered by his surviving mother, Queen Amoashtart, who arranged for the inscription to be made. The sarcophagi were probably...
to leave it in-situ, regretting later his decision. I (beneath) #17 (Amoashtart) Black stone in Egyptian style. II #3 White marble anthropoid containing...
c. 539 BC Rank King of Sidon Spouse(s) Amoashtart (also his sister) Children Eshmunazar II Relations Amoashtart (sister) unnamed brother Bodashtart (nephew)...
Inscriptions found on the king's sarcophagus reveal that he and his mother, Amoashtart, built temples to the gods of Sidon, including the Temple of Eshmun by...
twelve names of rulers of Sidon are known (among them one queen-regent, Amoashtart). Bodashtart was the fifth of them, his regnal years cannot have been...
his heir was his son Tabnit, who fathered Eshmunazar II from his sister Amoashtart. King of Sidon – List of monarchs of Sidon. Sidonian coins were the first...
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