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Melqart protected the Punic areas of Sicily, such as Cefalù, which was known under Carthaginian rule as "Cape Melqart" (Punic: 𐤓𐤔 𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕, RŠ MLQRT). [15] Melqart's head, indistinguishable from a Heracles, appeared on its coins of the 4th century BCE.
The Cippi of Melqart are a pair of Phoenician marble cippi that were unearthed in Malta under undocumented circumstances and dated to the 2nd century BC. These are votive offerings to the god Melqart , and are inscribed in two languages, Ancient Greek and Phoenician , and in the two corresponding scripts, the Greek and the Phoenician alphabet .
Articles relating to the god Melqart, his cult, and his depictions. He was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre and a major deity in the Phoenician and Punic pantheons . He may have been central to the founding-myths of various Phoenician colonies throughout the Mediterranean , as well as the source of several myths concerning ...
The Melqart stele, also known as the Ben-Hadad or Bir-Hadad stele is an Aramaic stele which was created during the 9th century BCE and was discovered in 1939 in Roman ruins in Bureij Syria (7 km north of Aleppo). [2]
In Cyprus, Eshmun was syncretized with Melqart, [7] [8] and also in Ibiza, as given by a dedication reciting: "to his lord, Eshmun-Melqart". [9] The name Astresmunim ("herb of Eshmun") was applied by Dioscorides [10] to the solanum, which was regarded as having medicinal qualities.
Since there has been a one-to-one association between Heracles and Melqart since Herodotus, the "Pillars of Melqart" in the temple near Gades/Gádeira (modern Cádiz) have sometimes been considered to be the true Pillars of Hercules. [3] Plato placed the legendary island of Atlantis beyond the "Pillars of Hercules". [4]
One of two Cippi of Melqart which Jean-Jacques Barthélemy used to decipher the Phoenician language. Etruscan "pietra fetida" cippus in Sarteano Cippus surmounted by a pine cone , which symbolizes the tree of life
Melqart's revival from death by smelling a roasted quail indicates a resurrection in one tale, but it is unlikely that in this story Melqart was dead for an entire season. The humorous tone of this story sounds more like what might be called mummer-play mythology, in which St. George dies and is almost immediately revived in a folky and ...