EditorialThe sign of Tanit, chief goddess of the Phoenicians. Upper part of a votive stele with engraving of a bottle. White limestone (4th BCE), from a Tophet, the enclosed area for sacrifice, Carthago. Height 62 cm.
EditorialThe sign of Tanit, chief goddess of the Phoenicians. Upper part of a votive stele with engraving of a bottle. White limestone (4th BCE), from a Tophet, the enclosed area for sacrifice, Carthago. Height 62 cm.
EditorialThis stele comes from the Tophet in Carthage (today Tunisia) Such grave markers were set up over burial urns for small children and animals which had been sacrificed to the goddess Tanit and her consort Baal Hammon. Canaanite symbolism: sun, crescent m...
EditorialThe sign of Tanit, chief goddess of the Phoenicians. Upper part of a votive stele with engraving of a bottle. White limestone (4th BCE), from a Tophet, the enclosed area for sacrifice, Carthago. Height 62 cm.
EditorialThis stele comes from the Tophet in Carthage (today Tunisia) Such grave markers were set up over burial urns for small children and animals which had been sacrificed to the goddess Tanit and her consort Baal Hammon. Canaanite symbolism: sun, crescent m...