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Several of the major Greek goddesses were identified with Tanit by the syncretic interpretatio graeca, which recognized as Greek deities in foreign guise the gods of most of the surrounding non-Hellene cultures as the Greek historians mention that Athena has ancient Libyan origins in North Africa to Tanit herself as a goddess of strikingly ...
The sign of Tanit or sign of Tinnit is an anthropomorph symbol of the Punic goddess Tanit, present on many archaeological remains of the Carthaginian civilization.. The symbol has many variants, but the basic form consists of a disc on top of a triangle, separated by a horizontal line, like a schematic image of a person.
Articles relating to the goddess Tanit and her depictions. She was the chief deity of Carthage alongside her consort Baal-Hamon.She was equivalent to the war goddess Astarte, and later worshipped in Roman Carthage in her Romanized form as Dea Caelestis, Juno Caelestis, or simply Caelestis.
Photos show the various offerings given to a pair of ancient deities. Rare golden gifts — left at a sacrificial site 2,300 years ago — uncovered in Tunisia Skip to main content
Adorned Statue of the Punic Goddess Tanit, 5th-3rd centuries BC, from the necropolis of Puig des Molins, Ibiza (Spain), now housed in the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (Barcelona) The Punic religion , Carthaginian religion , or Western Phoenician religion in the western Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the ...
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Schematic version of basic Tanit symbol. Date: 2006: Source: SVG equivalent of original PNG by User:AnonMoos, vectorised by Erin Silversmith. Author: Original uploads by Erin_Silversmith, recent by AnonMoos: Other versions: For an alternative version, revised to look more like certain specific archaeological examples, see Image:Tanit-Symbol ...
Castle of Soure - received and reconstructed in March 1128, was the first castle of the Knights Templar. [16] Old town of Tomar, including the Castle, the Convent of the Order of Christ and the Church of Santa Maria do Olival [1] [2]