Melkart
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/11055
- Name (English)
- Melkart
- Short name
- Melqart
- Short Description
- "Melqart was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city of Tyre. Melqart was often titled the "Lord of Tyre" (Ba‘al Ṣūr) and was considered to be the progenitor of the Tyrian royal family.[citation needed] As Tyrian trade and colonization expanded, Melqart became venerated in Phoenician and Punic cultures from Lebanon to Spain." - (en.wikipedia.org 30.12.2019)
- Entity Encoding
- pxg
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Silbermünze aus Tyros mit Hippokamp und Eule
Dieser Schekel wurde in Tyros...
Object information
Image: Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart - CC BY-SA
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