Ashteroth Karnaim

'Astarte of the Two Horns'), also rendered as Ashtaroth Karnaim, was a city in Bashan east of the Jordan River.

[citation needed] Eusebius (c. 260/265–340) writes of Karneia/Karnaia, a large village in "Arabia", where a house of Job was identified by tradition.

The floppy turbans and pointed shoes and the style of the cloaks are typical for Israel at that period; the same clothes are shown on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III.

It shows Jehu, King of Northern Israel, or his representative offering tribute to Shalmaneser III on the second register down.

[6] All sites identified by different scholars at different times as Karnaim/Ashteroth Karnaim lay in modern Syria in the area of Daraa.

The capture of the city of "Astartu" (thought to be Ashteroth in the land of king Og of Bashan , east of the Jordan River ), by the Neo-Assyrian emperor Tiglath-Pileser III about 730–727 BCE, as depicted on a palace relief now kept on display at the British Museum. [ 1 ]