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The Temple of Hercules Gaditanus, Temple of Melqart or Temple of Hercules-Melqart was a place of worship in Antiquity in the southern outskirts of Gadir-Gades (current-day Cádiz) perhaps dating as early as the 8th century BC.
The Phoenician settlement traded with Tartessos, a city-state whose exact location remains unknown but is thought to have been somewhere near the mouth of the Guadalquivir River See also: Temple of Hercules Gaditanus
Another temple to Melqart was at Ebyssus , in one of four Phoenician sites on the island's south coast. In 2004 a highway crew in the Avinguda Espanya, (one of the main routes into Ibiza), uncovered a further Punic temple in the excavated roadbed. Texts found mention Melqart among other Punic gods Eshmun, Astarte and BaŹ»l.
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Temple of Hercules Gaditanus This page was last edited on 16 November 2024, at 13:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Temple of Hercules Gaditanus; Temple of the Obelisks; U. Umm al-Amad, Lebanon This page was last edited on 11 April 2021, at 08:38 (UTC). Text ...
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Polyaenus mentions a temple of Athena being built under Theron outside the city, which could be identified with that of "Hercules", though also with a new one in the inner acropolis. The building, with 20th-century anastylosis, measures 67 x 25.34 m, with a peristasis of 6 x 15 Doric columns and a cella with pronaos and opysthodomus, is located ...