Allat the pre-Islamic Arabian deity and Astarte may have been assimilated to each other(p. 51), and the two were closely linked. On one of the tesserae used by the Bel Yedi'ebel for a religious banquet at the temple of Bel the deity Allat was given the name Astarte ('štrt). The assimilation of Allat to Astarte is not surprising in a milieu as much exposed to Aramaean and Phoenician influences as the one in which the Palmyrene theologians lived. Similar to Astarte, Allat was as well associated with morning star (Venus), crescent, war, prosperity, and lions.