The temple (or sanctuary) of Astarte, that can be dated in the last phase of life between the 3rd and 2nd B.C., stands immediately after the entrance to the acropolis (figs. 1-2).

Figs. 1-2 - The settlement of Monte Sirai: highlighted the "temple of Astarte". BARTOLONI 2004, fig. 11; drawn up by GUIRGUIS 2013, fig. 11).

It has several rooms connected with worship and a nearby tub, which is now in the ground (figs. 4-5).

It is one of the central cells of the temple, built on the previous Nuragic monument, of which a part of the curved wall can still be seen, and developed between the 5th and 2nd century B.C., where the small statue was found that was still worshipped in the Roman era.

The statue of Astarte (fig. 3), a Phoenician goddess with astral value, connected with love and healing and that identifies the worship of the monument, dates back at least to the 7th century B.C.

The traces of the previous Nuragic monument, perhaps with a sacred purpose, show a building that can be dated, at least in its use as a place of worship as suggested by the ruins, between the 8th and 6th century B.C., before the area was conquered by Carthage: the Phoenician bronze figure that shows a libation carried out with a jug similar to the Nuragic askoid ones (fig. 6).

Fig. 3 - Statue of Astarte (MOSCATI 1988b, p. 286)

Figs. 4-6 - The "tempio di Astarte" and the tub area (photo Unicity 2015); map and ancient finds (GUIRGUIS 2013, fig. 3).