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Tanit or Tinnit (Punic: 饜饜饜 T墨nn墨t [3]) was a chief deity of Ancient Carthage; she derives from a local Berber deity and the consort of Baal Hammon. [a] [5] [6] As Ammon is a local Libyan deity, [7] so is Tannit, who represents the matriarchal aspect of Numidian society, [2] whom the Egyptians identify as Neith and the Greeks identify as Athena.
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.
the Phoenician goddess Tanit, whose name was linked to that of 士A峁痶artu's later Phoenician iteration, 士Aštart, was represented with a lion's head; the masculine counterpart of 士A峁痶artu, 士A峁痶aru, was also called 饜帊饜巵饜帨 (laba示u, lit. ' lion ').
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 ...
The meaning of his first name "Baal" is identified as one of the Phoenician deities covered under the name of Baal. [4] However, the meaning of his second name "Hammon" is a syncretic association with Amun, the god of ancient Libya [5] whose temple was in Siwa Oasis where the only oracle of Amun remained in that part of the Libyan Desert all throughout the ages [6] this connection to Amun ...
The Carthage tophet, is an ancient sacred area dedicated to the Phoenician deities Tanit and Baal, located in the Carthaginian district of Salammbô, Tunisia, near the Punic ports. This tophet , a "hybrid of sanctuary and necropolis", [ 1 ] contains a large number of children's tombs which, according to some interpretations, were sacrificed or ...
[141] [142] Later archeological finds show a Tanit from Phoenicia. [143] [144] [145] From linguistic evidence Barton concluded that before developing into an agricultural deity, Tanit probably began as a goddess of fertility, symbolized by a tree bearing fruit. [146] The Phoenician goddess Ashtart was supplanted by Tanit at Carthage. [147] [148]
[B 12] For M'hamed Hassine Fantar, the goddess has a mission of "protecting the sacred enclosure of the temple and the cultic expression." [F 3] The female statues may be interpreted as representing the omnipotent Tanit. [C 6] The forms of the goddess's representation exhibit diverse