Papyrus of Astarté
The Papyrus of Astarté is a papyruses fragmentary, which was to make in the beginning a score pages and of which there remain only the two first, very damaged, two or three lines of the third and fourth pages and some words of several others.
Interpretation is thus very difficult and dubious. According to Gardiner, it is about a tale, probably written under the reign of Horemheb, which tells the history of a divinized cosmic force, Yam, symbolizing the sea, which requires a tribute of the other divinities, of which Astarté.
The Egyptians had not divinisé the sea; Hâpy, the the Nile, was enough for them like god to water. It is probably under the influence of the Phéniciens that this god Yam entered the Egyptian Pantheon.
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