10 calls the place the "house of the ashtoreth."
"History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)"
G. Maspero
Like them, they worshipped Baal and ashtoreth, and the frightful Moloch, with foul and cruel rites; and, like them, they were excellent sailors and great merchants trading with every known country, and living in great riches and splendor at their grand city on the southern shore of the Mediterranean.
"A Book of Golden Deeds"
Charlotte M. Yonge
Even ashtoreth, in whom all the other goddesses of the popular cult came to be merged, was of Babylonian origin.
"Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations"
Archibald Sayce