Tartak - An idol introduced by the
Avvites into Samaria when Sargon of Assyria transported them thither ( 2 Kings 17:31 ). In Assyro-Babylonian mythology no such deity is at present provable; moreover, the geographical position of the
Avvites is uncertain, and their city may have been in one of the western States of Asia
Samaritans - The descendants of the Cuthites,
Avvites, Sepharvites, and Hamathites, established by Sargon in Samaria after he had put an end to the Israelite kingdom