The great Phoenician goddess of love, war and sovereignty, present in Punic cult (the Pyrgi dedication; Tas-Silġ on Malta; the Berger 1898 Carthaginian dedication naming sanctuaries of both Astarte and Tanit). Shares theonym and origin with the eastern Phoenician Astarte (corpus id phoenician_astarte); authored here in her Punic role. SOLITARY in this batch: at Carthage she is overshadowed by, and assimilated to, Tanit (Tanit-Astarte) — the older view that Tanit is a Punic form/hypostasis or successor of Astarte is widely reported but increasingly contested (current scholarship tends to distinguish them, Tanit likely originally local/Libyan), so no kin/identity edge is wired; at Tyre she is paired with Melqart. The Aphrodite/Venus (also Iuno, in the Uni/Caelestis milieu) interpretatio is recorded here, not wired as a relation (counterpart not in this batch).